“…A range of animal tissues or by-products can be used for the prediction of diet using the technique (see review by Dalerum and Angerbjörn 2005). Examples include faeces (Sponheimer et al, 2003;De Smet et al, 2004), hair (Sponheimer et al, 2003;West et al, 2004), fat from plasma, liver, muscle or kidney (De Smet et al, 2004), whole blood (Kurle, 2002), stomach contents (Sare et al, 2005), milk (Camin et al, 2004), feathers (Hobson and Bairlein, 2003) and expired CO 2 (Passey et al, 2005).…”