Study of elephant, capybara, human hair finds that thicker hair isn't always stronger

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 17:20 in Biology & Nature

Despite being four times thicker than human hair, elephant hair is only half as strong -- that's just one finding from researchers studying the hair strength of many different mammals. Their work shows that thin hair tends to be stronger than thick hair because of the way that it breaks.

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