Underfur

In fact, the underfur was no longer available in quantity, for beaver populations had precipitously declined, a hard fact noted by old trappers who remembered the glory days when the animals were so numerous a man could whack them dead with a stick. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

Collection of the underfur causes the death of the chiru. ❋ Sun Bin (2005)

It is being slaughtered illegally by the thousands for its wool actually, the underfur of the chiru, which is known in the international market as "shahtoosh" or "king of wool." ❋ Sun Bin (2005)

Fog settles onto damp leaves in the woods - not Prufrock's yellow fog or the amber fog of the suburbs, but a gray-white hanging mist that feels like the down or underfur of some pervasive beast. ❋ Unknown (2004)

For generations until 1684, the maharajah of Kashmir had exclusive rights to the underfur combed from the throat and belly of this cold old goat. ❋ William Safire (2004)

Instead of long body hairs, markhors possess insulating underfur - a soft and valuable raw material for the famous Kashmiri shawls. ❋ Unknown (1991)

The soft dense underfur (the commercially valuable pelt called "nutria") is about 2 cm long on the belly, and ❋ Unknown (1991)

The coypu is adapted to a semiaquatic existence and has webbed feet, valvular nostrils that can be closed to keep water out, and underfur that remains dry even under water. ❋ Unknown (1991)

The pelage is thick, with coarse guard hairs overlying the underfur. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Whinney's shaggy coat was heavy even in summer, though it would be much thicker in winter when the dense underfur grew in. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

The yellow underfur showed through the black guard hairs of her back-strip when the wind ruffled it, the black shading to yellow on flanks and sides, and from this Collins called her Shady. ❋ Charles Livingston Bull (1910)

Pinnipedia called Arctocephalinae to contrast them with Otariinae - the sea lions - based on the most prominent common feature, namely the coat of dense underfur intermixed with guard hairs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Arctocephalinae to contrast them with Otariinae - the sea lions - based on the most prominent common feature, namely the coat of dense underfur intermixed with guard hairs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They are marked by their dense underfur, which made them a long-time object of commercial hunting. ❋ Unknown (2010)