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Skin Hair on African and Asian Elephants

Caption: This is skin hair on African and Asian elephants.

Credit: Citation: Myhrvold CL, Stone HA, Bou-Zeid E (2012) What Is the Use of Elephant Hair? PLoS ONE 7(10): e47018. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047018

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