Redunca fulvorufula
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English: Mountain reedbuck
German: Bergriedbock
French: Redunca de montagne
Spanish: Antilope redunca
Distribution areas
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The mountain reedbuck and other species
of reedbuck live in East, Middle and South
Africa.
Description of the fur
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The skins are 120 to 140 cm long. The The surface structure
fur is coarse and the brown-grey or of the skin, 300x
red-grey in colour. The belly area is
white. The hair coat is 25 to 35 mm thick; in the neck and the foreparts of
the body, the hair is longer and felted. The underfur layer is not
distinguishable. The coarser hairs are soft and straight. The fine fur fibres
are moderately curled.
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Redunca fulvorufula
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English: Mountain reedbuck
German: Bergriedbock
French: Redunca de montagne
Spanish: Antilope redunca
Structure of the hair
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The microscopic skin surface appears
grooved. The hair follicles are wide with
straight edges, and usually they are
single-haired.
The fine fur fibres are circular, and in
the upper part of the shaft elliptical, in The cuticular structure
cross-section. The diameter is in the range of the fine fibres, 1000x
of 20 to 25 µm. The cuticular scales are
cornet-like, tile-like, with a smooth surface and straight scale margins.
These fibres are non-medullated.
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Redunca fulvorufula
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English: Mountain reedbuck
German: Bergriedbock
French: Redunca de montagne
Spanish: Antilope redunca
The intermediate fibres have a circular,
and in the upper part of the shaft
elliptical, cross-section with a diameter
of about 35 to 50 µm. The cuticle is even,
tile-like with a smooth scale surface and
straight margins. The medulla is wide,
unbroken and central symmetrical-shaped in
cross-section. The overall structure of the
medulla is of the lattice type with the Transverse section
complex-sheet-like infilling material. of a fine fur fibre, 2000x
The guard hairs are from 50 to 75 µm in diameter. These fibres are
elliptical in cross-section. In the lower part of the shafts they are
circular in the cross-sectional outline. The cuticular scales are even,
tile-like with a smooth surface and straight scale margins. The medulla is
wide, unbroken and central symmetrical-shaped in the cross-section, and is of
the lattice type with a complex-sheet-like infilling substance.
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Redunca fulvorufula
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English: Mountain reedbuck
German: Bergriedbock
French: Redunca de montagne
Spanish: Antilope redunca
Longitudinal section
of an intermediate fibre, 1000x
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Redunca fulvorufula
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English: Mountain reedbuck
German: Bergriedbock
French: Redunca de montagne
Spanish: Antilope redunca
Longitudinal section
of a guard hair, 2000x
Numerical code for mountain reedbuck skin structure
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Surface of the skin: 2-2-1
Fine fur fibres: 1.2-5.2-1-1-4-0-0-0-0-20.25-15.35
Intermediate fibres: 2.1-2-1-1-2-1-1-8-4-35.51-25.45
Guard hairs: 2.1-2-1-1-2-1-1-8-4-50.75-30.55
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