Timeline for Why would merfolk have hair?
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| Jul 19, 2017 at 21:15 | comment | added | Nick Dzink | Funny thing: my cat cant bite through the hair on my head all the way to the skin. So it is some kind of protection. | |
| Jun 2, 2016 at 1:06 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | @AarthewIII Technically that would be hair but it would be of a sort totally unlike the human sort. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 17:53 | comment | added | Aarthew III | @Vakus that's why I said touch extension and protection would require modification to look blowfish like. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 16:30 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | @AarthewIII Tough extension is nowhere near the main function of human hair, and especially with long hair in water it's ability to extend touch is pretty poor. Also humanlike hair obviously doesn't provide a protection advantage, if anything giving enemies/predators something to grab onto is a considerable disadvantage. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 16:07 | comment | added | Aarthew III | @Vakus and pipe I agree that there are no fully aquatic mammals with hair. I do disagree with the idea that because there are none there should be none. Just because there is no utopia does not mean there shouldn't be one. And utopia is just as fictional as mermaids. Hair is still useful underwater as well. Indication and insulation have no need of modified hairs. Touch extension and protection(think blowfish) might. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 12:29 | comment | added | pipe | @AarthewIII Indeed, but we have different words for fur and hair for a reason. Generalizing hair to cover fur does not make a good argument. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 1:41 | comment | added | Aarthew III | @pipe Fur is actually made of hairs. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 23:34 | comment | added | pipe | Fur is not hair. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 21:22 | comment | added | yo' | @AarthewIII Note that beavers and otters are hardly "fully aquatic", and all the other ones have very short hair. I don't really buy this. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 15:00 | comment | added | Aarthew III | @Vakus Drake But many aquatic animals do have it as well. Fur is composed of hair and numerous aquatic mammals have fur. Seals, beavers, otters, and even hippopotamus have hair. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 9:23 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | Well for one hair provides considerable drag in the water, there's a reason so many fully aquatic creatures mammals lack it. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 2:29 | history | answered | Aarthew III | CC BY-SA 3.0 |