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After the summer moult, the crabeater seal is dark brown dorsally and grades to blonde ventrally.
Jumping bristletails moult 8 to 10 times before reaching sexual maturity, which may take up to two years.
Female tarantulas like other mygalomorphs are able to moult after reaching maturity.
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.
Poor Dolly is having a really bad moult, shedding great wads of fine grey hair.
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.
The larvae feed side by side, leaving the feeding front only to defecate or moult.
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.
Each moult is preceded by a period of intense fasting so that the old tegument can be shed more easily.
Following the breeding season, the male will moult and loose his nuptial feathers.
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.
The adults moult, or shed, their feathers in summer and are flightless for a month or more.
They swim south with the prevailing currents, undergoing a wing moult that makes them flightless for up to a month.
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.
The larval ontogeny of both lineages comprised three zoeal stages prior to the metamorphic moult.
In both lineages, the larval sequence comprised three zoeal stages followed by a metamorphic moult to the Decapodid.
They moult in the newly constructed hibernacula and remain there until spring.
Its only taken a week for this vapourer moth larva to do one moult.
After the moult, the production increases again and the quality of the eggshells improves too.
This is because, uniquely among insects, mayflies need to moult again after emerging as adults, before they are sexually mature.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This is when the broken feather is to be imped merely for the purpose of the moult.
In this species, after the first moult, the power of flight is lost for ever.
During a moult the cuticle of the head is cast separately from that of the body.
You always choose February to moult in, and you will have to be feathered down there.
From the French muer, and the Latin mutare, to change, of hawks to moult.
At the autumn moult, it obtains a long tail and a streaked crown.
In the fall the loon came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter before I had risen.
Jack was caught two or three times, and Dan and moult as often.
First-half goals from Kieron Morris, Ross White and Louis Moult gave the visitors a deserved 3-0 lead at half-time.
Robert Moult, 59, had slipped three discs over the years and dishonestly claimed pounds 12,500 in Disability Living Allowance, Llandudno Magistrates heard.
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