All About Mammals Pg 2

All mammals have fur or hair.

Sometimes it's long hair covers their entire body lhasa apso

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Even mammals that swim under the water (like dolphins and whales) have hair. Though you would need a magnifying glass to see the fine hair on the lips of a young whale.

Mammals are the only animals with true hair. Hair are dead cords of a substance called keratin which is also what our fingernails are made from. The most important part is that hair is dead.

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What looks like hair on a fly or a spider actually contains living parts of the animal.

That means if you cut a spider's hair it would HURT! (er, the spider)

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