Museums and Institutions, Role of

The effects of body region, season and external arsenic application on hair cortisol concentration

“…The world’s natural history collections are large. For instance, there are well over 1 million mammal specimens in collection in the USA (~1 078 616 specimens in the three largest natural history museums in the country) and more than 800 000 specimens in the Natural History Museum in London ( Novacek and Goldberg., 2013 ). Although some of these specimens are skeletons, claws and other preparations that are not appropriate for hair analysis, there are nonetheless study skins among these collections.…”