Incorporated into this mass was a considerable amount of grass and animal hair, including a lone crimped guard hair of a deer or elk.
River otters fully shed and replaced under fur from May through August and shed and replace guard hair from August to November (Ben-David et al., 2000; Ben-David M, personal observation), allowing for an assessment of seasonal diets.
The fur is composed of short, soft underfur covered by shiny guard hair.
Cashmere is the fine, downy wool that grows beneath the coarse outer layer of hair, called the guard hair, of the cashmere goat.
Both the length of guard hair and the genetic pattern made the determination certain.
Perry Sumner, a biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, said it's likely a red fox with a rare genetic condition known as Sampson, an abnormality in which the animal lacks a layer of fur called guard hair.
Definition of guard hair in US English:
guard hair
noun
Long, coarse hair forming an animal's outer fur.
针毛（动物的粗长外毛）
Example sentencesExamples
Cashmere is the fine, downy wool that grows beneath the coarse outer layer of hair, called the guard hair, of the cashmere goat.
The fur is composed of short, soft underfur covered by shiny guard hair.
River otters fully shed and replaced under fur from May through August and shed and replace guard hair from August to November (Ben-David et al., 2000; Ben-David M, personal observation), allowing for an assessment of seasonal diets.
Both the length of guard hair and the genetic pattern made the determination certain.
Perry Sumner, a biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, said it's likely a red fox with a rare genetic condition known as Sampson, an abnormality in which the animal lacks a layer of fur called guard hair.
Incorporated into this mass was a considerable amount of grass and animal hair, including a lone crimped guard hair of a deer or elk.