The Phnom Penh Post: Fad for ‘lucky’ tail hair threatens Vietnam elephants
IN A village in Vietnam’s “elephant kingdom”, a vendor holds up a severed, dried tail dotted with coarse hairs she promises will bring good luck -– a grim new trade that is endangering the country’s ...
A female African elephant walks in Kenya's Samburu National Reserve. Note the hairs on her tail. Scientists from the University of Utah and Save the Elephants analyzed chemical isotopes in elephant ...
A 6- year study on the tail hairs of a family of African Elephants show their dietary history and the competition of food with other species. The BBC website covers the publication of a study in the ...
Phys.org: Diet secrets of 'the Royals' -- Elephant tail hair isotopes show cattle out-munch pachyderms
Diet secrets of 'the Royals' -- Elephant tail hair isotopes show cattle out-munch pachyderms
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Scientists are tracking the diet and movements of elephants in Kenya by analyzing chemicals in the elephant's tail hair. The study, published in the journal Proceedings ...
Science Daily: An Elephant Tail: New Tracking Method May Help Endangered Pachyderms
Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals. The human body, apart from areas of glabrous skin, is covered in follicles which produce thick terminal and fine vellus hair.
Human beings have several different types of hairs. The first to develop is the lanugo, a layer of downy, slender hairs that begin growing in the third or fourth month of fetal life and are entirely shed either before or shortly after birth.