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Animal Hair Slides Fall 2011

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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/p anda.mp3

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Cuticle Cortex Medulla 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 Chris Veal

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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

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Medulla Partial on right side Long, thin Fragmented Oval shape By: Alex Sicilia Medulla Cuticle Cortex Flattened/Crown-like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLv H2g3UzfE&feature=related Cortex Medium size Color unknown Shape: tiny little lines and dots Cuticle Thin, white outer edge. 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.

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Cuticle: Imbricate or flattened scales, white, very thin. Cortex: Dark gray to black coloring, thin. Medulla: Continuous, grey color, very thick. 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.

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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 Cuticle Medulla Cortex Taylor Gallagher

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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 http://www.wildsanctuary.com/java/applets/LivingLin ks/audio/zeb.wav By: Emily Casey Cortex Cuticle

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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X aPhVcLdz4M&feature=related Roughly 1.5 million cars collide with dear annually Airplanes in America collide with roughly two dear annually

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Koala Cuticle Spinus/Petal-like Scale Pattern Cortex Light Brown color Medulla Dark Brown Continuous Line Interesting Fact: Koalas arent bears, theyre marsupials Koalas dont drink water. They get all their water from Eucalyptus leaves Noise they make: https://www.savethekoala.com/sounds/k oalagrunt.wav Cuticle Cortex Medulla Daria Capaldi

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

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

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Balance a ball utilizing their whiskers and not their nose. Sometimes sea lions sniff poop to see if that poop is their baby. http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~nhi708/classify/animalia/chordata/ma mmalia/pinnipedia/sealion.wav

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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. Sarah Strauss

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

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http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/anima ls/mammals/snow-leopard/

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

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

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Sara Thurber 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/sou ndfx/bear_sounds/bear_grizzlybear_wa v.shtml Facts: Each hair shaft is transparent and pigment free with a hollow core Polar bears have black skin under their fur