pelage

• Much of the debate around giraffe taxonomy is that 'desktop' science with limited knowledge of giraffe pelage (coat) patterns, historical and current range, ecological and geographic separation and now genetic variation, has resulted in a mess of taxonomy which has in all practicality gone beyond repair. —  Mongabay.com News
• Stay tuned … the preliminary results are due out within the month and hopefully we can again highlight the important differences in this giraffe (sub) species to those across the continent which one would expect considering their geographic isolation, and of course pelage (coat) patterning. —  Mongabay.com News
• The season, too, has much to do with the colour; and the pelage is shaggier and longer than that of the Ursus Americanus_. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
• Long sharp face, elevated brows, broad head, large pointed ears, thick woolly pelage, and very full brush of medial length; above dull earth-brown; below, with the entire face and limbs, yellowish-white; no marks on limbs; tail concolourous with the body, that is brown above and yellowish below, and no dark tip (_Hodgson SIZE.--Length, 4 feet; tail, 20 inches; height, 30 inches Hodgson says this animal is common all over Thibet, and is a terrible depredator among the flocks, or, as Kinloch writes: "apparently preferring the slaughter of tame animals to the harder task of circumventing wild ones." —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• According to Hodgson it is "distinguished for its smooth coat or pelage, wherein the long hairy piles are almost wanting. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

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