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- Hayden Leigh, a forensic graduate, uses hair from a 120-year-old taxidermy bear for wildlife crime investigations.
- The bear, named Boris, has been displayed at the Museum of Chelmsford since 1932.
- Leigh’s PhD research examines Boris’s fur under a microscope to improve animal-hair identification in poaching cases.
- He approached about 30 zoos and museums before the Chelmsford museum agreed to lend the specimen.
