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For me there is a problem here in the fact that both, platypus and squirrel are museum skins. I'm missing a critical discussion explaining if this fluorescence

For me there is a problem here in the fact that both, platypus and squirrel are museum skins. I'm missing a critical discussion explaining if this fluorescence is natural, (and can be natural perfectly) or due to the the chemical products used to preserve the specimens. Those studies are lacking of a control group

undersuit 6y ago
Scroll down past the fold and you see a picture of a live flying squirrel also with fluorescent fur.
zepearl 6y ago
> “One evening,” says Anich, “he heard the chirp of a flying squirrel at a bird feeder, pointed the flashlight at it, and was amazed to see pink fluorescence.”