1. Animal Hair Slides
Fall 2011

2. 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

3. 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 f
Cuticle
Medulla
Cortex
Chris Veal

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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:
Cuticle
Cortex
Medulla
Daria Capaldi

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.
Facts:
Each hair shaft is transparent and pigment free with a hollow core Polar bears have black skin under their fur