Animal Hair Slides Fall 2011

Panda Bear Panda hair closely resembles polar bear hair and black bear hair (the white and black) Very thick and very coarse Medulla – absent in white, continuous in black Cortex – very large Cuticle – overlapping Bamboo does not offer enough nutrition to hibernate so the giant panda must go south for the winter Zoos give birthday cakes made of ice and vegetables with bamboo candles to pandas http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/sounds/panda.mp3

Tiger Cuticle: Petal-like scales Thin Cortex: Orange in color Medulla: Continuous Thick Interesting Fact: A tigers stripes are like fingerprints – no two are alike Tigers can leap 10 yards and jump 15 feet high Tiger Growl http://www.junglewalk.com/popup.asp?type=a&AnimalAudioID=326 f Cuticle Medulla Cortex Chris Veal

Chinchillas Claudia Drinnan Chinchillas can jump up to five feet above their head. Each chinchilla has about 20,000 hairs per square centimeter. Cuticle-shingles, very smooth Cortex-typically gray or beige Medulla-fragmented pattern http://www.cheekychinchillas.com/chinsounds.html

WOMBAT By: Alex Sicilia Interesting Facts Wombats are very shy animals. Farmers consider wombats pests because they damage crops and fences, and cattle may break their legs by stepping in wombat burrows. Cortex Cuticle Thin, white outer edge. Cuticle Cortex Medium size Color unknown Shape: tiny little lines and dots Medulla Flattened/Crown-like Medulla Partial on right side Long, thin Fragmented Oval shape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLvH2g3UzfE&feature=related

Moose Hair of Animal Medulla Cortex Cuticle Exterior of Hair Bryan Fink Hair of Animal Medulla Cortex Cuticle: Imbricate or flattened scales, white, very thin. Cortex: Dark gray to black coloring, thin. Medulla: Continuous, grey color, very thick. Cuticle Interesting Facts: 1.) One of the biggest racks of antlers ever found was 81 inches across and 77 pounds. 2.) A bull moose looses his antlers each and every year! 3.) Moose have hollow hair which helps them to float. Exterior of Hair

Cow Medulla: is very thick and continuous Cuticle: crown-like scales Cortex: thick An average dairy cow weighs 1,400 pounds Cows only have bottom teeth Cortex Cuticle Medulla Taylor Gallagher

Zebra Every zebra has unique stripes, just like human fingerprints By: Emily Casey Every zebra has unique stripes, just like human fingerprints Zebras cannot be tamed like horses because of their unpredictable, wild nature Cuticle- imbricate/ flattened scales Cortex- dark and thick; making up mostly all of hair. Cortex varies from light to dark due to if the hair is black or white. Medulla- absent medulla Cortex Cuticle http://www.wildsanctuary.com/java/applets/LivingLinks/audio/zeb.wav

Deer Hair Fiber Analysis Ben Moller Cuticle, particularly thick compared to other rodents or animals Medulla, is continuous throughout the entire fiber. Cortex, used to determine pigment, which in this case is brown Scale Pattern: Spinus or petal-like scales protruding off from the shafts on the hair fibers. Roughly 1.5 million cars collide with dear annually Airplanes in America collide with roughly two dear annually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaPhVcLdz4M&feature=related

Koala Cuticle Cortex Daria Capaldi Cuticle Cortex Interesting Fact: Spinus/Petal-like Scale Pattern Cortex Light Brown color Medulla Dark Brown Continuous Line Interesting Fact: Koala’s aren’t bears, they’re marsupials Koala’s don’t drink water. They get all their water from Eucalyptus leaves Noise they make: https://www.savethekoala.com/sounds/koalagrunt.wav Cuticle Cortex Medulla Daria Capaldi

Horse Joe Bisciotti A horse’s heart weighs nine pounds The horse is a herbivorous mammal Medulla Cuticle Cortex Hair has an imbricate scale pattern The medulla is fragmented Has a thick cuticle

Hear the scream of the red fox Red Fox Jennifer Carr Cuticle- Crown Cortex- Small Medulla- Interrupted Can live in most of the lower and middle Northern Hemisphere Red fox’s can adapt to any environment, including; forests, farms, grassland, deserts, mountains, suburbs, and cities Hear the scream of the red fox

Sea Lion Cortex Cuticle Balance a ball utilizing their whiskers and not their nose. Sometimes sea lions sniff poop to see if that poop is their baby. The cuticle is thick on one side and thinner on the other. Also, the cortex is a greyish color. There is no medulla present in this hair sample. The scale pattern on the hair is flat. Cortex Cuticle http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/classify/animalia/chordata/mammalia/pinnipedia/sealion.wav

SKUNK Sarah Strauss Medulla Fragmented Thick Cuticle Thin Spinus Cortex Interesting facts Its scientific name (mephitis mephitis) actually means "noxious gas, noxious gas". Skunks can accurately spray the foul smelling fluid up to ten feet. Medulla Cuticle Cortex Sarah Strauss

Skunk Cuticle Medulla Alex Reading The skunks scientific name is mephitis mephitis, which actually means "noxious gas, noxious gas.” Cortex Cuticle White, thin outer part of the hair Before a skunk sprays it goes through a series of warning motions Cortex Large, grey inner part of the hair between the Cuticle and the Medulla Medulla Unseen in this picture

SNOW LEOPARD Snow Leopard’s main causes of death is hunting, but avalanches are also a cause of these deaths Their tails can be almost as long as their body They have thick, smoky-gray fur patterned with dark gray open rosettes. In the mountains they blend perfectly with the rocky slopes CORTEX CUTICLE: Thick, for protection MEDULA: Interrupted CROWN http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/snow-leopard/

Monkey Cuticle Cortex Medulla Cuticle Cortex is thick Medulla is thin and continuous Cuticle Cortex Medulla Monkey Annemarie Perilli Monkeys use vocalizations, facial expressions, and body movements to communicate A monkey was once convicted and tried for having smoked in Indiana

Squirrel Scale pattern is imbricate, crenate Many squirrels use their tails as a form of complex communication Their teeth never stop growing Gnawing helps the teeth not grow into their neck Cortex Cuticle Medulla

Polar Bear Sara Thurber Cortex medulla Cuticle Facts: Cuticle: is imbricated Medulla: Thick Fragmented Medulla which provides insulation for the Bear, and also scatters the light so that even when the bear is wet the fur still appears white. http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/bear_sounds/bear_grizzlybear_wav.shtml Facts: Each hair shaft is transparent and pigment free with a hollow core Polar bears have black skin under their fur