Skin the Behaarung is called of mammals. Seasonally their Behaarung the climatic conditions to adapt one calls the ability of many mammals skin change.

With many animals an upper skin becomes made of cover hair and line hair (Granne) and a Unterfell from woolly hair, also Unterwolle mentioned, differentiated between. The upper skin protects the animal against direct weathering with rains and snow. The Unterfell protects the animal against warmth and cold weather.

The taken off skin of the killed animal is called generally fur. In the hunter language the skin of individual animals with different designations is designated (e.g. Schwarte with the black game and Dachs or cover at the Rotwild). Carrion side the internal side is thus called, the meat side of the skin and/or the skin.

Animals with a special skin

• waterproof
  • Beaver
  • Otter
  • Sea-dog
  • Seal
  • Golden Retriever
• other one
  • Stachelschwein
  • Hedgehog

See also

• Wool, hair, skin, fur

• Terms from anatomy with the word component - skin: Drum skin, Zwerchfell, peritoneum, chest skin

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