Hopi Hoekstra

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Hopi Hoekstra

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You are a Curator of Mammals, what does a Mammal Curator do? I head the mammal collection at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). The collection comprises specimens collected as early as the 1830s, the red squirrel series collected by Louis Agassiz (one of Darwin’s biggest foes), and hundreds of type specimens, including that of Gorilla gorilla. I have a terrific staff that looks after the department’s day-to-day activities, such as processing research loans and curating new specimens. My primary responsibilities are to develop strategies for the collections (e.g., maintaining a repository of genetic materials, adding more population sampling) and to help develop public exhibits for the museum. My favorite unofficial curatorial duty is giving special guest tours of the attic: armed with flashlights, we can explore the creaky floors and dusty corners crammed with hippopotamus skulls, hundreds of mounted horns and antlers, and the giant ribs of a blue whale.

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