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The term fur is also used to refer to animal pelts that have been processed into leather with their hair still attached. The words fur or furry are also used, more casually, to refer to hair-like growths or formations, particularly when the subject being referred to exhibits a dense coat of fine, soft "hairs".
Otter fur is about an inch long, erect, and thick. It is durable, ranking with mink fur, and is used chiefly for trimming garments. [4] Otter fur is typically used in men's fashion as it has a dark brown, rugged look. River otters are currently the most common species currently used in the fur trade after the sea otter was declared endangered. [36]
Due to the habitats and conditions reindeer must endure, they have much denser and stronger fur than their whitetail counterparts. Reindeer fur is so dense that it is capable of withstanding up to ...
The trade distinguishes between mainland gray foxes depending on their origin: the Eastern one (Colorado, Missouri, Texas, Rocky Mountains etc.) with short-haired silky fur, silvery back, rusty yellow dewlap and the Western one (New York State, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia, etc.) with full (“heavy”) hair, blackish-gray back and up to copper red dewlap. [9]
The Siberian tiger has long hair and dense fur. [24] Its ground colour varies widely from ochre-yellow in winter to more reddish and vibrant after moulting. [25] The skull is shorter and broader than the skulls of tigers further south. [19] South China tiger formerly P. t. amoyensis (Hilzheimer, 1905) [26]
Emil Brass, the fur trader from Berlin, wrote the following on arctic fox furs in 1911. ‘’Found on Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland and possibly the Faroe Islands, the arctic fox is considerably smaller than the american white fox, measuring 60 cm in length. The hair is dense, long and silky, the tail round and stocky with thick woolly hair.
Sable fur was a favourite of Henry VIII, who once received five sets of sable fur worth £400 from Emperor Charles V. [19] Henry later decreed that sable fur was to be worn only by nobles exceeding the rank of viscount. [20] The Russian conquest of Siberia was largely spurred by the availability of sables there.
The brown greater galago is a nocturnal, arboreal animal. [9] During the day, it rests 5 to 12 meters (16 to 39 ft) above the ground in a dense tangle of creepers or in the hollow of a tree, rarely on an exposed branch. Female galagos will make nests, leafy platforms with foliage above to shelter their young. [7]