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Coats and Camouflage (Animals)

Green hair
The sloth in South America hangs upside-down in trees. Unlike the ...

Amazing But True
A pangolin is covered in very unusual scales because they are ...

Hairy heirlooms
In the last Ice Age which ended 10,000 years ago, rhinoceroses and ...

Pin cushion
Mammals' quills and prickles are types of hair but may be very hard ...

Thick tufts
The tuft of hair at the end of an elephant's tail is about 20 cm ...

Cunning colours
The patterned coats of mammals such as tapirs, tigers and giraffes ...

DID YOU KNOW?
Until the age of three months a cheetah cub has a thick mane of ...

Walrus whiskers
Some mammals have very sensitive whiskers which help them to find ...

Hair flower
The hyrax has a very unusual hair 'flower'. On its back is a gland ...

Longest hair
Mammals that live in cold places have the longest hair. The musk ox ...

Warm coats
All mammals have some hair. It helps to keep them warm by stopping ...