How To Use Underfur In A Sentence
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It is being slaughtered illegally by the thousands for its wool actually, the underfur of the chiru, which is known in the international market as "shahtoosh" or "king of wool.
Ying Ying the Chiru (Tibetan Antelope), try not to buy shahtoosh
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The pelage lacks underfur and is usually some shade of brown.
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A reindeer's key defense against the cold is an exceptional winter coat that has a fine underfur combined with long, hollow guard hairs that contain thousands of tiny, insulating air cells.
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Collection of the underfur causes the death of the chiru.
Ying Ying the Chiru (Tibetan Antelope), try not to buy shahtoosh
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To the contrary, caribou underfur (like caribou skin in general) is not waterproof or water-repellent: moisture penetrates it easily.
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The pelage lacks underfur and is usually some shade of brown.
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The fur is composed of short, soft underfur covered by shiny guard hair.
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Gray wolves have a dense underfur layer, providing them with excellent insulation against cold conditions.
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The fur of a dassie rat is soft and silky, but there is no underfur.
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In fact, the underfur was no longer available in quantity, for beaver populations had precipitously declined, a hard fact noted by old trappers who remembered the glory days when the animals were so numerous a man could whack them dead with a stick.
Bird Cloud
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To the contrary, caribou underfur (like caribou skin in general) is not waterproof or water-repellent: moisture penetrates it easily.
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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.
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Beneath the overfur is short underfur of finer texture.
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The pelage of cane rats is unusual, made up of coarse, flattened or grooved bristle-like hairs, and lacking underfur.
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For generations until 1684, the maharajah of Kashmir had exclusive rights to the underfur combed from the throat and belly of this cold old goat.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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When you look at fur, especially the really dense fur of mammals, you look at that underfur, and it looks like down.
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Fog settles onto damp leaves in the woods - not Prufrock's yellow fog or the amber fog of the suburbs, but a gray-white hanging mist that feels like the down or underfur of some pervasive beast.
From On High
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It is being slaughtered illegally by the thousands for its wool actually, the underfur of the chiru, which is known in the international market as "shahtoosh" or "king of wool.
Ying Ying the Chiru (Tibetan Antelope), try not to buy shahtoosh
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The fur of sea otters is very dense with an insulating underfur and a layer of long guard hairs over the top which trap a layer of air, adding further to the insulation.
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The fur of sea otters is very dense with an insulating underfur and a layer of long guard hairs over the top which trap a layer of air, adding further to the insulation.
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The pelage consists almost entirely of underfur; it is remarkably iridescent, fine, and silky.