for xander fun humboldt's parrot yacob who sat on his shoulder for 35 years. later it turned out that jaco both in fact female no matter what's bird is something of an icon for the berlin natural history museum which likes to play up the association with home but the berlin born polymath is still celebrated for his expedition to the americas and for the wealth of days or specimens and notes he brought back with him. in museums director has a clear goal your highness fogel wants to take a position on debates in society and present nature in context much in the tradition of humbled. doesn't really interest me as a museum director is how can we raise the next generation of humboldt's. can we get young people excited about nature from nature both as a scientific and as a societal or political topic and how can we get them to pursue it with passion throughout their lives you leave that for me is the legacy of. some of the objects that who brought back from his expeditions are here in the natural history museum above all mineral specimens. all together the museum ho