Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 12 2012
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5927-9_18
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Ultrastructure and Chemical Composition of Elephant Hair in the Context of Chemical Signals in the Asian Elephant Elephas maximus

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“…Most of the thick tail-hair samples were hard to pulverize and upon pulverization, they appeared ‘greasy’ with peculiar odor. This could be due to the presence of fatty acids and malodorous compounds in the tail-hair of elephants as suggested by Raha et al (2013) .…”
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“…Most of the thick tail-hair samples were hard to pulverize and upon pulverization, they appeared ‘greasy’ with peculiar odor. This could be due to the presence of fatty acids and malodorous compounds in the tail-hair of elephants as suggested by Raha et al (2013) .…”
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confidence: 96%
“…There are numerous studies on elephant hair addressing varied topics such as hair and protein structures in mammoth ( Gillespie, 1970 ; Valente, 1983 ; Hillary & Buys, 1984 ), reliability of hair-follicle mitochondrial DNA ( Greenwood & Pääbo, 1999 ), genetic variation in hair length candidate genes ( Roca et al, 2009 ), the migration patterns, chronologies, dietary history and seasonal dietary shift through stable isotopes from tail-hair ( Cerling et al, 2004 ; Cerling et al, 2006 ; Cerling et al, 2009 ; Wittemyer, Cerling & Douglas-Hamilton, 2009 ; Uno et al, 2020 ), forensic species identification ( Yates, Espinoza & Baker, 2010 ), thermo-regulatory properties of body hair ( Myhrvold, Stone & Bou-Zeid, 2012 ), trace element concentrations ( Hu, Fernandez & Cerling, 2018 ), tensile strength of hair ( Yang et al, 2019 ) and scent-flagging behaviour ( Raha et al, 2013 ). From existing evidence, there is no study that assessed the physiological markers in the hair of elephants.…”
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“…There are numerous studies on elephant hair addressing varied topics such as hair and protein structures in mammoth (Gillespie, 1970;Valente, 1983;Hillary & Buys, 1984), reliability of hair-follicle mitochondrial DNA (Greenwood & Pääbo, 1999), genetic variation in hair length candidate genes (Roca et al, 2009), the migration patterns, chronologies, dietary history and seasonal dietary shift through stable isotopes from tail-hair (Cerling et al, 2004;Cerling et al, 2006;Cerling et al, 2009;Uno et al, 2020), forensic species identification (Yates, Espinoza & Baker, 2010), thermo-regulatory properties of body hair (Myhrvold, Stone & Bou-Zeid, 2012), trace element concentrations (Hu, Fernandez & Cerling, 2018), tensile strength of hair (Yang et al, 2019) and scent-flagging behaviour (Raha et al, 2013). From existing evidence, there is no study that assessed the physiological markers in the hair of elephants.…”
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“…The tail-hair of elephants, particularly, is distinct from hair in other large mammals in its thickness and also serves as a repository of chemical information (Cerling et al, 2006;Cerling et al, 2009;Raha et al, 2013). A diverse range of biological questions from assessing protein structures to seasonal dietary patterns (Valente, 1983;Hillary & Buys, 1984;Cerling et al, 2006;Cerling et al, 2009) has been answered using elephant hair; yet, no attempts have been made so far to assess the physiological and reproductive biomarkers in body hair or tail-hair of elephants.…”
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