Photograph by Gregg Trusty/LSUS News

Dr. Richard Speairs (left) and Dr. Laurence “Mac” Hardy set the stage for “Pancho” the parrot, the only live “exhibit” in the LSUS Museum of Life Sciences. Speairs is professor of biology, emeritus, and a retired chair of the Department of Biological Sciences. Hardy is professor of biology, emeritus, and director of the museum.