Sentence examples for a pelage from inspiring English sources

During a field study on mongoose lemurs (Eulemur mongoz) at Anjamena in western Madagascar an animal was observed which exhibited a pelage coloration intermediate between that of red-fronted brown lemurs (E. fulvus rufus) and mongoose lemurs [ 26].

The Tenrecinae (spiny tenrecs) include four genera (Hemicentetes, Tenrec, Setifer, Echinops), characterized by a spiny pelage and a large body size compared to the other tenrecs.

And, like bats, their possession of membranous rather than feathered wings, a furry pelage, and (for many species at least) a fish- or flesh-diet, would seem sufficient to place them among the forbidden foods.

It is important here to indicate that (except in the case of human beings and "artificial selection") selective pressures are not conscious entities calculating how to shape a species; the temperature regime that shapes a species' pelage over time, for example, is strongly conditioned by geography and physics, not a designing mind.

Pups typically molt in utero and are born with a dark pelage.

This is why skunks, zorilles (also known as polecats) and the African crested rat have independently converged on a similar pelage theme of black against white.

Compsognathus and Sinosauropteryx thus appeared to represent an early branch of the coelurosaurian theropods (which included animals as varied as Archaeopteryx and Tyrannosaurus) whose ancestors already had a thick pelage of short filaments all over their bodies.

Some gray mouse lemurs actually have a reddish pelage color!

This animal has a lighter pelage than other subspecies, with lobe-shaped blotches that reach below the hocks.

The mantled guereza has a distinctive pelage, it is mostly black, with long white fringes of silky hair known as a mantle or ornamentation along the sides of its body and tail.

In winter they develop a white pelage and enlarged forefeet claws which allow them to dig through compacted snow [43].