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How do hairless mammals like elephants and rhinos with cold?

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While these animals live in places with hot temperatures, it definitely gets incredibly cold in winter and at night. With no layer of fur, how do they manage? Do they not feel uncomfortable like we do? submitted by /u/mrmulticultural99 [link] [comments]

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

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It’s not fecal material, but parts that are not digestible like fur, bones and the exoskeletons of insects. For example, since eagles and hawks tend to rip their prey apart and have stronger digestive acids, their pellets look like wads of fur. Birds will barf them back up out of their mouths.

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Sneeze Prone? Top 5 Dogs for Allergy Suffers

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In fact, it has nothing to do with a dog’s fur. What happens is that the dander is released via fluids or gets embedded in the dog’s fur which is then spread in the air and attached on multi-surfaces when a dog urinates, salivates or sheds. It’s actually the dog’s dander (skin flakes).

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Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

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In nature, you’ve got your leathery skin (like elephants or crocodiles), you’ve got your fur (like beavers and red deer), you’ve got your scales (like fish and pangolins) and you’ve got your feathers (like many theropod dinosaurs … oh, and birds).

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Albino Squirrel

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Mike’s squirrels were described in one of the comments as “blond” I prefer this as there is definitely colour in the squirrels’ fur, it is just very pale. Leucism is caused by an area lacking in melanocytes, resulting in white patches.

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Pets Can Change Anyone

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Maybe you’ve seen those little balls of fur captivate those around you, or maybe you’ve even been captivated yourself. They lived outside, and they definitely didn’t have any reason to set foot in the house. She currently works along with Coffee Home Direct, researching fair-trade green coffee. Pets can change anyone.

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

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The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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