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NOUN
  1. growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal

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.
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