So it was an opportunity to do some comparative work at different elevations. And it was something we were doing hand in hand with the surrogate program, and we would still go on to do it with the endangered species. So that will definitely stop. It's really important for a variety of reasons. For a long time now, malaria and pox have been blamed for reductions in bird distribution, in population size, and so on.
Some species are very susceptible.
So, they began to do some work on trying to monitor populations to see just what kind of impact the diseases were having, where they were coming from, what the elevational diseases in prevalence were, and a whole slew of things that would lead to a better understanding of how these diseases operate, and, eventually, to development of better treatment for these diseases. All of the disease work that s going on now will make it much easier for us to deal with these problems in the future. One of the interesting things is, we did a release of common amakihi and a release of Maui creepers this year in the Hosmer Grove area. They were all hand-reared birds that we took up, put into hacking aviaries at that elevation. And we had one instance where one of our common amakihi developed pox, and we had no other disease problems.