People say that museums (natural history) are obsessive collections of animals and plants that contributes to their extinction.Today that isn´t true.
There was a time long, long ago when collectors where allowed to collect 2 elephants per person(too many elephants per person).That is irresponsible, killing a slow reproducing species in such a rate could make the hole species disappear.Today most big mammal collections are made of animals dead in the roads and smaller animals, if endangered will not be obsessively collected.
Museums need many specimens because...
Ex 1:If you just had a male you can´t study the female and if you just had a female you can´t study the male.
Ex 2:If you don´t have enough specimens from different times you don´t if it has different diseases or if immunity has been developing.
Actually museums are a way of preserving what has been lost and what we´re loosing.
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