How do animals with white fur manage to keep it clean all the time, even after killing a animal and getting covered with its blood. Usually white is the hardest coulor to keep clean as it stains easily.

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How do animals with white fur manage to keep it clean all the time, even after killing a animal and getting covered with its blood. Usually white is the hardest coulor to keep clean as it stains easily.

In: Biology

Answer 1

Fur isn’t the same as fabric. To start with the fur usually has oils and other secretions which make it resistant to fluids (kind of like natural scotch guard). Also the fur doesn’t have the criss-cross of fibres the way a woven fabric does. The weaving makes lots of little spots for things to collect in and stain. Fur by contrast doesn’t really have any similar spots for the dirt (blood, etc…) to collect in.