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Hair is a biopolymer mostly made from keratin, which grows from the skin. Hair is exclusively found in mammals.

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How do disulphide bonds in hair cause curling?

Microscopic level: See this post from here: Curly hair has to do with the chemical bonds in the protein that makes up hair - $\alpha$-keratin. … Hence, curly hair has more interactions than straight hair. The process of `perming' hair introduces more accessibility of the sulpher on the amino acid, cysteine, to make these connections. …
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