Hair of the Mouse
You might remember a few weeks ago we were off to try out Simon’s hairtubes to see if we could find evidence of Dormice at a site. Well, one of the tubes turned up a few strands (and all the peanut butter bait was gone) so something must have crawled through. Here’s a microscope image (not great as it’s taken by pressing the digital camera into the eyepiece and trying not to wobble). It does seem to show typical Dormouse hair structure - closed oval cells (the dark blobs). It’s not exactly conclusive, but interesting.
Tags: dormouse, ecology, hair, mammal, species, survey, wildlife
You might remember a few weeks ago we were off to try out Simon’s hairtubes to see if we could find evidence of Dormice at a site. Well, one of the tubes turned up a few strands (and all the peanut butter bait was gone) so something must have crawled through. Here’s a microscope image (not great as it’s taken by pressing the digital camera into the eyepiece and trying not to wobble). It does seem to show typical Dormouse hair structure - closed oval cells (the dark blobs). It’s not exactly conclusive, but interesting.
Tags: dormouse, ecology, hair, mammal, species, survey, wildlife
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