pelage

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Researcher Hannah Walker from the University of Montana documented the distribution of these different pelage colours across their range in North America using museum specimens.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

His estimated birth year was determined by the condition of his pelage, or fur, and teeth.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2022

Moratelli selects a small, compact individual with dark wings and a luxurious golden pelage.

From Nature • Feb. 17, 2015

Their pinnae are strongly reduced: essentially just being a slim semicircle of tissue concealed by pelage.

From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2014

Because it was discovered that secondary sexual variation was negligible, both males and females, if of like age and pelage, were used in comparisons designed to reveal geographic variation.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.