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Wool
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For other uses, see Wool (disambiguation).
Long and short hair wool at the South Central Family Farm Research Center in Boonesville, Arizona
Wool section, Walcha show. The creamy fleeces on the left are crossbred wool.
Wool is the fiber derived from the fur of animals of the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of other mammals such as goats, llamas and rabbits may also be called wool. Wool has two qualities that distinguish it from hair or fur: it has scales which overlap like shingles on a roof and it is crimped; in some fleeces the wool fibers have more than 20 bends per inch.[citation needed]
