Animal Hair Slides

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 • http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/sounds/panda.mp3

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 http://www.junglewalk.com/popup.asp?type=a&AnimalAudioID=326 f Cuticle Medulla Cortex Chris Veal

4. ChinchillasClaudia 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

5. 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. WOMBAT Cortex By: Alex Sicilia • Cuticle • Thin, white outer edge. Cuticle • Cortex • Medium size • Color unknown • Shape: tiny little lines and dots Medulla • Medulla • Partial on right side • Long, thin • Fragmented • Oval shape Flattened/Crown-like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLvH2g3UzfE&feature=related

6. Moose 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. By: Emily Casey Zebra • 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

9. Deer Hair Fiber AnalysisBen Moller Cuticle, particularly thick compared to other rodents or animals Cortex, used to determine pigment, which in this case is brown Medulla, is continuous throughout the entire fiber. 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

10. Koala • Cuticle • 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 Medulla Cortex DariaCapaldi

11. Joe Bisciotti Horse • 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. 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 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. Balance a ball utilizing their whiskers and not their nose. Sometimes sea lions sniff poop to see if that poop is their baby. Cortex Cuticle http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/classify/animalia/chordata/mammalia/pinnipedia/sealion.wav

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

16. CORTEX SNOW LEOPARD CUTICLE: Thick, for protection MEDULA: Interrupted 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 CROWN http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/snow-leopard/

17. Cuticle • Cortex is thick • Medulla is thin and continuous Cuticle Cortex Monkey Monkeys use vocalizations, facial expressions, and body movements to communicate Medulla Annemarie Perilli 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 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 Cortex Facts: Each hair shaft is transparent and pigment free with a hollow core Polar bears have black skin under their fur medulla Sara Thurber Cuticle