You're welcome! I just showed to my girlfriend telling her Jamin is so well done and fluffly just looking at him made me happy. It deserved a comment!
I'm not a great animal drawing myself hahahaha but I'm good at observing, so I think I can help somehow
Look at my friend Haldir here:
Notice how the mane goes around his head giving the notion of depth. There's a forward layer, the one that makes the "beard"/chest fur, and a layer behind, like "hair falling" (is so weird to equal it to human hair) but it's more or less like it.
It's even easier to see it in our main man Simba:
Notice how his head and ears are surrounded by his mane. You can see the layers cleary - chest > friend > back
Basically, there's hair behind the ears and in front of it
I hope it helped!!