{"id":26422,"date":"2020-12-06T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/sabias-que\/pelo-este-animal-diez-veces-fino-que-cabello-humano"},"modified":"2020-12-06T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T10:48:20","slug":"el-pelo-de-este-animal-es-diez-veces-mas-fino-que-el-cabello-humano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/el-pelo-de-este-animal-es-diez-veces-mas-fino-que-el-cabello-humano\/","title":{"rendered":"This animal&#039;s hair is ten times finer than human hair."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/507c08\/the_book_of_antelopes_-1894-_pantholops_hodgsoni\/1024_2000.png\" alt=\"El pelo de este animal es diez veces m\u00e1s fino que el cabello humano\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>There are animals with soft fur, and then there is the chir\u00fa, which <strong>has the finest hair in nature<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>He <strong>chiru<\/strong> either <strong>tibetan antelope<\/strong> (<em>Pantholops hodgsonii<\/em>) exhibits strands of hair 7 to 10 micrometers (one-thousandth of a millimeter) in diameter, one-tenth the thickness of a human hair.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Chiru<\/h2>\n<p>The chir\u00fa is a species of medium-sized artiodactyl mammal of the subfamily Antilopinae native to the Tibetan Plateau, northern India and certain regions of Nepal and central China. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p>However, the trade in the wool of this mountain animal, known as shahtoosh, <strong>has caused a drastic decrease in its population<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"caption-img\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shahtooshshawl Usfws\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/dcbe34\/shahtooshshawl-usfws\/450_1000.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span>Shahtoosh Shawl<\/span>\n   <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Shahtoosh<\/strong> (also spelled Shatush), a Persian word meaning &quot;Pleasure of Kings&quot;, is the name given to a particular type of shawl, woven using the strands of the fur of the Tibetan antelope or chir\u00fa, by the weavers of Kashmir. Several chiru must be sacrificed to obtain the amount of material needed to make a Shahtoosh shawl.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><script>\n (function() {\n  window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {};\n  var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n  if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) {\n   var instagramScript = document.createElement('script');\n   instagramScript.src = 'https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js';\n   instagramScript.async = true;\n   instagramScript.defer = true;\n   headElement.appendChild(instagramScript);\n  }\n })();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/sabias-que\/pelo-este-animal-diez-veces-fino-que-cabello-humano?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> This animal&#039;s hair is ten times finer than human hair. <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=06_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/5g_V3kRoV5I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/507c08\/the_book_of_antelopes_-1894-_pantholops_hodgsoni\/1024_2000.png\" alt=\"El pelo de este animal es diez veces m\u00e1s fino que el cabello humano\"><\/p>\n<p>There are animals with soft fur, and then there is the chir\u00fa, which <strong>has the finest hair in nature<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>He <strong>chiru<\/strong> either <strong>tibetan antelope<\/strong> (<em>Pantholops hodgsonii<\/em>) exhibits strands of hair 7 to 10 micrometers (one-thousandth of a millimeter) in diameter, one-tenth the thickness of a human hair.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Chiru<\/h2>\n<p>The chir\u00fa is a species of medium-sized artiodactyl mammal of the subfamily Antilopinae native to the Tibetan Plateau, northern India and certain regions of Nepal and central China. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<p>However, the trade in the wool of this mountain animal, known as shahtoosh, <strong>has caused a drastic decrease in its population<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"caption-img\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shahtooshshawl Usfws\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/dcbe34\/shahtooshshawl-usfws\/450_1000.jpg\"><span>Shahtoosh Shawl<\/span>\n   <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Shahtoosh<\/strong> (also spelled Shatush), a Persian word meaning &quot;Pleasure of Kings&quot;, is the name given to a particular type of shawl, woven using the strands of the fur of the Tibetan antelope or chir\u00fa, by the weavers of Kashmir. Several chiru must be sacrificed to obtain the amount of material needed to make a Shahtoosh shawl.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/sabias-que\/pelo-este-animal-diez-veces-fino-que-cabello-humano?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=06_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> This animal&#039;s hair is ten times finer than human hair. <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=06_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=06_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/5g_V3kRoV5I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26719,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions\/26719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}