How To Use pelage In A Sentence
- Another characteristic of aquatic and semiaquatic mammals is that they are often well insulated; beavers accomplish insulation by a pelage that consists of long overfur (guard hairs) and dense underfur.
- To discover whether ungulate coloration aids in concealment, we first tested whether uniform pelage color typically matches habitat background.
- The pelage consists almost entirely of underfur; it is remarkably iridescent, fine, and silky.
- They have an opposable hallux on their hind feet, and their pelage is soft, thick, and wooly.
- The pelage of these animals is soft, silky, and dense.
- The pelage of cane rats is unusual, made up of coarse, flattened or grooved bristle-like hairs, and lacking underfur.
- The evolution of endothermic metabolic rates and pelage and plumage in the earliest mammals and birds, respectively, followed radically different sequential chronologies.
- Within the family Mustelidae, weasels, minks, and martens exhibit remarkable intra- and interspecific pelage color variations.
- Pelage color varies considerably, but is usually some shade of brown, gray, or buff.
- The third color phase occurs during the first pelage of young wolves.