My fur is considered the softest in the world and is thirty times softer than human hair. I must regularly bathe in dust or volcanic ash to remove oil and moisture that gathers in their thick fur. In fact, I have the highest fur density of any land animal with more than 20,000 hairs per square cm. My fur is so dense that skin parasites (such as fleas) cannot live on one lest they suffocate. Whereas humans grow one hair from each follicle, a chinchilla has more than fifty hairs from a single follicle. So there.
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