Hair Morphology Examination of Badger Meles Meles L., 1758 in Turkey By Using Light And Scanning Electron Microscopes

Year 2020, , 67 - 72, 26.03.2020

Didem Atasever Nahit Pamukoglu

https://doi.org/10.17350/HJSE19030000175

Abstract

In this study, the hairs of the badger Meles meles in the collection and various museums were examined and was tried to determine whether there were variations. For the morphological analysis of the guard hair samples taken from the middle part of the ridge, the guard hairs were examined by both light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy SEM . The root of the guard hairs on the back and sides was dirty white, the body was brownish black and the tip was white. The length of the hairs on the back and sides was determined to be about 75 mm. It was determined that 21 of the samples had summer fur, the dorsal part had brown and transition tones had dark brown hairs, and 4 had winter fur, the dorsal part had grayish brown hairs and the ventral part had blackish light brown hairs. In addition, winter fur was found to be covered more frequently and with long guard hairs.

Keywords

Badger, Meles meles, Hair morphology, Turkey

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