Aepyceros melamphus
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English: Impala
German: Impala
French: Impala
Spanish: Impala
Distribution areas
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The Impala is an antelope with lives in
South-East Africa, usually in wooded areas.
About five varieties of the species are
known.
Description of the fur
---------------------- The surface structure
Skins of the Impala are maximally 1.8 m of the skin, 2000x
long and are covered with coarse hairs. The
coat is usually red-brown, having a dark-brown strip along the backbone and
around the back. The belly and the back are white. The fine underfur fibres
are lightly coloured, short and relatively few. The coat consists of the
coarse hair fibres 12 to 25 mm long.
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Aepyceros melamphus
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English: Impala
German: Impala
French: Impala
Spanish: Impala
Structure of the hair
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The microscopic skin surface is usually
covered by parallel grooves of variable
depth. The hair follicles are narrow with
straight edges and contain only one hair
shaft. The fine fur fibres are from 8 to 25
µm in diameter. The cross-section is
circular and the cuticular scales are The cuticular structure
cornet-like with a smooth surface and of an intermediate hair, 400x
straight scale margins. These fine fibres
are non-medullated.
Intermediate fibres are not present.
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Aepyceros melamphus
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English: Impala
German: Impala
French: Impala
Spanish: Impala
The guard hairs are circular in the
lower part of the shaft, when they have
developed to their full length. In the
middle and upper parts the cross-sectional
outline is aster-like, having usually three
points arranged in a T-shape. The diameter
is in the range of 80 to 320 µm. The
cuticular scales are even, tile-like with a
smooth surface and straight scale margins. A group of hairs of the fine
These hairs have a predominating type of and guard type, 200x
medulla which is unbroken and central
symmetrical-shaped. The overall medullary structure is of the lattice type
with an infilling material of the complex-sheet-like structure.
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Aepyceros melamphus
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English: Impala
German: Impala
French: Impala
Spanish: Impala
Transverse section
of a guard hair, 400x
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Aepyceros melamphus
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English: Impala
German: Impala
French: Impala
Spanish: Impala
Detailed structure
of the medulla, 2000x
Numerical code for Impala skin structure
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Surface of the skin: 2-4-1
Fine fur fibres: 1-5-1-1-4-0-0-0-0-8.25-2.12
Intermediate fibres: 7.1-2-1-1-1-1-1-8-4-80.151-18.25
Guard hairs: 7.1-2-1-1-1-1-1-8-4-151.321-25.35
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