bear hide slipping

[grayghost]

If your Bears are just beginning to shed, and weren't shedding all along, I would suspect Dermestid* Beetles or Moths' have gotten into your mounts. Examine the loose hair at the root section with high magnification. If hair roots are present, it's slipping. If the roots are missing, they have been eaten off at the skin line by insects. Mounts can and should be treated at least every two years by a competent Taxidermist, especially horned game (Sheep, Goats, Antelope etc). If insects are present, you should be able to find evidence: eggs, "sawdust" debris (micro particles of hair and skin), larvae or adults. If none are evident, closely smell your mount for odor. If there is any skin attached to loose hair, then the skin was spoiled at some point, from the kill to the mounting process. Good luck, grayghost
*Dermestid: Ultimately from Greek dermestes, a leather-eating worm, literally, skin eater, from derm- + edmenai to eat. Any of a family (Dermestidae) of beetles with clubbed antennae that are very destructive to organic material of animal origin (as dried meat, wool, or museum specimens)