Kirby's 5th Reflection

Today in our groups, we researched, outlined, and interviewed for our movies. While interviewing Jack, he talked about Avian Pox and how the Galapagos birds had lesions on their feet containing the disease. The Academy's collections were put to use in researching this. I thought this was a really interesting way to put the collections to use. Jack also told us that when specimen's skins are dried, their DNA is broken into fragments, which was something I did not know. Through these interviews, I realized that collections were an extremely important backbone of the Academy and fueled a lot of the research.