The summer fur is generally shorter, sparser and duller than the winter fur. Although retaining the same minimalist approach, Spacemen 3's sound was now sparser and mellower. The summer fur is very short, sparser and rougher. Regrowth may be sparser after treatment. Asiatic lions usually have sparser manes than average African lions. The summer fur is much shorter and sparser and its length and density varies geographically. The summer fur is shorter, sparser, less compact and lustrous. Hairs are even sparser on the flanks, belly and groin. They prefer areas with sparser vegetation than those chosen by the chestnut-collared longspur. The forests are much sparser in the Polar Urals. Towards higher elevations, plant life becomes sparser. Earlier records exist, but with sparser coverage and less standardized instrumentation. Bennett believed that Bragg was overproducing his songs, a sharp contrast to Wilco's sparser contributions. They developed a much sparser and more stylized type of animation, inspired by Russian examples. Learned dictionaries are capable of giving sparser solutions as compared to predefined transform matrices.