pelage in English

noun
1
the fur, hair, or wool of a mammal.
The evolution of endothermic metabolic rates and pelage and plumage in the earliest mammals and birds, respectively, followed radically different sequential chronologies.
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1. Pelage colour ranges from silver grey to chocolate brown.

2. Like others in its group, its pelage is generally silvery-gray.

3. Except for its almost entirely black pelage, it resembles the other members of the T. francoisi group.

4. Juveniles are much smaller, usually 49–54 mm (1.9–2.1 in) long at birth, and are covered in downy white pelage.

5. Myocastor Coypus (Coypu) is a large rodent (5-9kg; 40-60cm body; 30-45cm tail), superficially rat-like, pelage brown and yellow-brown in colour with a cylindrical tail

6. Abdominal hair is the hair that grows on the abdomen of humans and non-human mammals, in the region between the pubic area and the thorax ().The growth of Abdominal hair follows the same pattern on nearly all mammals, vertically from the pubic area upwards and from the thorax downwards to the navel.The Abdominal hair of non-human mammals is part of the pelage, (hair or fur).