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Originally Posted by Mikael
I think this is intesresting to 
Red fox 10800 hair / cm2
Does a Wolf have the same as a CsV 13´000-16´000 hair / cm2 ???
And way does Alaska-M and Husky has so vert few hair / cm2 ???
Artical obout dog hair >>> http://www.wolfdog.org/eng/articles/103.html
Best regards / Mikael |
I find this very hard to believe. As a matter of fact I do not believe this is true. I would want to see some other studies on the same issue before I will take this seriously.
Why?
Because
Chinchillas are known to have the highest fur density of any land animal with more than 20,000 hairs per square cm. Their fur is so dense that skin parasites (such as fleas) cannot live on one lest they suffocate. Whereas humans grow one hair from each follicle, a chinchilla has more than fifty hairs from a single follicle.
I hardly believe that wolfdogs (originating from German Shepherd & Wolf mixes) would suddenly develop remarkably larger hair density than it's ancestors have.
Unless someone can show me some serious studies that have been made on this issue, and maybe show that there have been some mutation or something, to make the hair density of a wolfdog so much bigger than any other canis lupus -sub species, I will not buy this.
