There might be some similarity between animal shedding its coat during certain times of the year and male-pattern baldness.

This process is akin to animals shedding their coats, which is a normal pattern that occurs amongst animals.
“The hair-follicle stem cell is not only listening to the voice in the stem cell, but also from the outside,” researchers said.
Any treatment for baldness should also focus on the tissue around the hair follicles and not merely concentrate on the follicles alone.
Source-Medindia