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IDENTIFICATION OF HUNGARI AN SMALL CARNI VORES USING GUARD HAIR ANALYsis 249

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Hair investigation methods require exact identification keys. The qualitative and quantitative characters osten show high variance and overlap but statistic alanalysis may give significant values for identification. Mean values of tengili maximal diameter and medullary index show enough consistency to be used fordistinguis hing Mustelidae. Homogenotis brown hairs may be long to almost any of the studi ed species. excluding the wild Cat. Iis guard hair always has at least onelight baiad. so it could resembles only the Red Fox. Cros s-sections are required forseparating similar hair of Red Fox and wild Cat. Two species of mustelliis, Badgerand Otter can he identi ted hy just a few hairs. Species specific identification is possibi e in a case of the Stone Marten and Pine Marten. hut the investigation demand s at least l0 20 or more intact guard hairs. Stoat and weasel. Polecat anil Steppe Polecat compose so called 'twin-pairsV where only one significant deviation would hel p. hut it is not enough for exclusive identification. The employmentos genetic methods may be necessary for the segregation of these species. The practical application of this method forna an integral part of ecological and faunistical research like mod-analysis frona scats, track-analysis, collecting hairS

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el muli evii Zede kben a vadasZati statisZti kak es monitoring programo k alal an. The status os mammati an and avi an predators on the basis of the game management statisti cs and monitoring

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one roosting colony has ever been located and that it is extreme ly vulnerable to disturbance andIor destruction. However, is current molecular studies support thevie w that the specimens Dona Cambodia. nori h-east anil solith-west India are of the sume taxon this status may have to be re Viewed. Such studies may also he of considerable interest in determining the relations hip between ali si x. allopatric, widely distributed but poorly known species with in the genus sensu WALSTON & BATES 200 l) current ly described frona Africa; Arabia. Asia and Austratasia.

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