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Hair from animal or animal skin

Samples from animals may have come from a live animal (e.g. by brushing or plucking from the coat of a live animal; from hairs found in a hair tube trap (1)) or from a dead animal (e.g. by plucking hair from an animal killed in a trap, taxidermy specimens or study skins prepared as reference material (2)).

Factsheets

Border collie. Image: Pixabay | CCO

Border collie (live adult)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs from the chest and flanks of a live Border Collie.

Brushtail possum

Brushtail possum (study skin)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs the study skin of a brushtail possum.

Brushtail possum

Brushtail possum (adult carcass)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs from a brushtail possum adult carcass.

Cat. Image: © By Fedor Leukhin (AT1A6925) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Cat (study skin)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs from a cat study skin.

Dingo. Image: © By Newretreads ( CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Domestic dog and dingo (study skin)

This factsheet assists in the identification of hairs from a domestic dog and dingo adult study skin.

Goat. Image: © Nemodus photos. CC 2.0 generic

Goat (study skin)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs from a goat study skin.

Horse. Image: Pixabay (CC0)

Horse (study skin)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs from a horse study skin.

Mouse. Image: © By 4028mdk09 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

House mouse (study skin)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs from a house mouse study skin.

Human (ethnicity unknown) scalp hair.

Human (scalp hair)

This factsheet assists in the identification of scalp hairs from a human of unknown ethnicity.

Human (Pakeha - of European descent).

Human (scalp hair)

This factsheet assists in the identification of scalp hairs from a human of Pakeha - (European descent) ethnicity.

Kiore

Kiore (adult and juvenile carcass)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs from a kiore (Pacific rat) adult and juvenile carcass.

Norway rat [Rattus norvegicus]. Image: AnemoneProjectors [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Norway rat (study skin)

This factsheet assists in the identification of a range of hairs from a Norway rat (brown rat) adult study skin.

Pig dog. Image: © Department of Conservation

NZ Pig dog (live adults)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs from an adult NZ pig dog.

Border Leicester sheep. Image: © Copyright Oast House Archive (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Sheep (study skin)

This factsheet assists in the identification of sample hairs from Border Leicester Cross sheep study skin.

Ship rat. Image: © Department of Conservation

Ship rat (study skin)

This factsheet assists in the identification of a range of hairs from a ship (black) rat adult study skin.

References

  1. Gleeson DM, Byrom AE, Howitt RLJ. 2010. Non-invasive methods for genotyping of stoats (Mustela erminea) in New Zealand: potential for field applications. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 34(3), 356-359.

  2. Brunner H, Coman B. 1974. The Identification of Mammalian Hair. Inkata Press, Melbourne.