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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">After a fur vault humidity problem, I am wondering what is the value of intact pelts of large mammals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Researchers take hair samples to examine stable isotopes to evaluate ecology, or snips of skin for DNA, but no one has needed an intact pelt for study. Others have
taken 10-20 hairs for scanning electron microscopy to compare to stomach or scat samples. The closest we came was when Ministry of Transport needed to get photos for a Road-Kill ID guide, but the entire pelt was not needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Wondering if we should only remove square swatches from future specimens, dry the skin/hair swatches (no chemicals), then store them in large ziplock bags (with
silica gel to control moisture). These bags could be stored on shelves in Durphy Boxes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">It also is inconvenient to tan hides and expensive. Perhaps smaller swatches would be the answer – better for storage, easier to prepare in house and not needing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Cheers and thanks for your thoughts,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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