After the summer moult, the crabeater seal is dark brown dorsally and grades to blonde ventrally. |
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Jumping bristletails moult 8 to 10 times before reaching sexual maturity, which may take up to two years. |
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Female tarantulas like other mygalomorphs are able to moult after reaching maturity. |
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The end result of the moult produced a dragon with powerful wings and the ability to shoot steaming jets of molten flame from its mouth. |
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Poor Dolly is having a really bad moult, shedding great wads of fine grey hair. |
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With each successive moult, or shedding of old feathers, they lose more of the brown and develop more of the white, grey, and black patterning. |
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The larvae feed side by side, leaving the feeding front only to defecate or moult. |
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After the second moult, larvae preyed only on the first-instar nymphs of Libyaspis, while the larvae of later instars preyed on nymphs of a wide range of sizes. |
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Each moult is preceded by a period of intense fasting so that the old tegument can be shed more easily. |
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Following the breeding season, the male will moult and loose his nuptial feathers. |
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Unlike some other seals, harbour seals do not depend on ice to give birth or to moult, so the ice's retreat is less bothersome to them. |
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The adults moult, or shed, their feathers in summer and are flightless for a month or more. |
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They swim south with the prevailing currents, undergoing a wing moult that makes them flightless for up to a month. |
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One of the most attractive of our waterfowl, the goose-like shelduck is renowned for its spectacular moult gatherings along the northern coast of Germany. |
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The larval ontogeny of both lineages comprised three zoeal stages prior to the metamorphic moult. |
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In both lineages, the larval sequence comprised three zoeal stages followed by a metamorphic moult to the Decapodid. |
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They moult in the newly constructed hibernacula and remain there until spring. |
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Its only taken a week for this vapourer moth larva to do one moult. |
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After the moult, the production increases again and the quality of the eggshells improves too. |
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This is because, uniquely among insects, mayflies need to moult again after emerging as adults, before they are sexually mature. |
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The penguins moult like dogs and it was breeding season, so all the chicks were hatching. |
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Soon, they begin to moult their white coats, and can be seen rolling on their backs, rubbing the ice as if trying to scratch an unbearable itch. |
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Prior to the terminal moult, male crab may skip a moult in one year to moult in the next. |
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However only 150 hooded seals were killed this year due to the low value of their coats after the moult. |
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Females normally join males at these sites and moult one to two months later. |
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King crabs moult, aggregate to mate, and brood their eggs for about a year, all traits which make them vulnerable to fishing. |
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The patchy raggedness of the moult gave him a somewhat mangy appearance, but by the end of June he was smooth and as lean as a hungry wolf in his summer coat. |
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Seventy-four percent of the pups born have survived to the first moult. |
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Over the past month, the periodical cicadas of Brood XIII, native to the area, have crawled up roots, through the earth's surface and onto tree trunks everywhere, to moult and spread wings. |
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Adjustments to nitrogen metabolism during wing moult in Greylag Geese, Anser anser. |
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Feather moult and skull ossification provide indications of age and health. |
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Comes then an important chapter on planes and the aerial fights that don't lack a prickle. 63 devices atmospheric are described there as for the AFVS with moult details. |
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Like most arthropods, lobsters must moult to grow, which leaves them vulnerable. |
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Lobsters, like many other decapod crustaceans, grow throughout life and are able to add new muscle cells at each moult. |
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Some nest building occurs throughout the year, especially after moult in autumn. |
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The spiderlings leave the mother after their second moult. |
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Moult patterns and moult migration in the Black-necked Grebe, Podiceps nigricollis. |
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But the oarsmen could not moult themselves in hoplites to be able to be opposed to the Macédonian phalanx: at the time of the final combat, the fleet remained unemployed. |
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A 3rd moult follows in another 6-10 days, giving the male pupal stage, and a 4th moult 4-5 days later, from which winged males, lacking mouthparts, emerge. |
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Thus, gonadal growth, total body weights, thyroxin levels, plumage moult and the testis histological profiles were investigated under long days. |
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Seaducks usually moult in salt waters, often concentrating in a few areas. |
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After breeding, terns moult into a winter plumage, typically showing a white forehead. |
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Although some individuals return to the same area of ice in July to undergo moulting, the majority of the herd moult further North. |
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Since it is difficult and risky to get all the chickens to moult at the same time, it is probably preferable to keep layers for only one laying period. |
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Like any arthropod encased in a rigid exoskeleton, a trilobite must periodically moult, or exuviate, in order to grow. |
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In spring, the moult is slow, starting from the forehead, across the back, toward the belly. |
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The moult, initiated by photoperiod, starts earlier in autumn and later in spring at higher latitudes. |
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Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow. |
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Belugas come here to rub against the rocky bottom to moult their skin. |
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Polar bears gradually moult from May to August, but, unlike other Arctic mammals, they do not shed their coat for a darker shade to provide camouflage in summer conditions. |
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Some that moult late may suspend their moult during cold winter weather. |
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In autumn, the moult is quicker, progressing in the reverse direction. |
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It is considered the warmest place on the south-west coast, as oranges, lemons, and American aloes bloom in the open air, in the pleasure grounds of Woodville and the Moult. |
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Moult patterns and molt migration in the Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis. |
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In the first minute, a short passback from Blazej Augustyn gave Moult a sniff but keeper Neil Alexander booted the ball away in the nick of time. |
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The first person to be seen on Channel 4 was Richard Whiteley with Ted Moult being the second. |
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In the old ads, farmer and former Brain of Britain Ted Moult watched a feather fall behind double-glazed windows in the Tan Hill Inn in the Yorkshire Dales. |
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Kevin Wilkin's side took a one-goal lead into half-time after Louis Moult got in the way of Martin Rice's dropkick and slammed home his fifth goal of the season. |
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