| The drakes soon abandon the brood and gather at moulting grounds at the end of June. |
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| Cruickshank, the dachshund, nosed his way around the doorpost, between Katherine's ankles and curled up on a rumpled, moulting hearth-rug. |
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| He is also probably quite ratty at this time because he is moulting. |
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| After moulting, the snow crab takes up water and swells to fill the new space available in its soft shell. |
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| And, in her final years of relative Provencal peace, she looks like a quietly moulting bird. |
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| Possible threats to moulting seaducks include mollusk harvest, gill net fisheries, disturbance, hunting, oil spills, aqua-culture industry. |
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| Many species are flightless for two to three weeks during the moulting period. |
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| Early settlers may have gathered Giant Canada Goose eggs and rounded up and slaughtered many of the geese during the flightless moulting period. |
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| It can feel as if one is moulting dollar bills with every step at an American hotel. |
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| The idea is that if you could disrupt their moulting process, they would start and then you would get rid of them. |
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| They frequent them more specifically towards the end of summer, after the moulting period, when they are actively in search of food. |
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| Regular feeding intensifies coloration and has a beneficial effect on the moulting process. |
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| With optimal conditions, they grow very quickly in the larval stage, moulting four times over the next few days, until they become pupae. |
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| Inositol stimulates growth and enhances vitality, alleviates all ailments caused by the moulting process and encourages spawning. |
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| The current survey program includes no consideration of moulting phenology. |
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| The moulting period, which extends from July to mid September, is also important for this species which remains longer at the haul-out sites. |
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| Seal species that rely on ice for rest, pupping and moulting will be particularly affected. |
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| Migration to the traditional wintering areas, which may encompass the moulting sites, takes place from October to November. |
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| Many species of seals, sea lions, and walruses, especially those inhabiting regions covered by seasonal sea ice, are directly reliant on suitable ice for resting, foraging, pupping, and moulting. |
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| In warmer climates, the combined effects of recovery from moulting and ovary maturation mean that spawning can become delayed. |
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| Harbor seals must spend a great deal of time on shore when moulting, which occurs shortly after breeding. |
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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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| In some cases, other types of migrations, e.g. to moulting areas, occur. |
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| If a male fiddler loses its large claw, it will grow another on the opposite side after moulting. |
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| The seals mass annually near the Denmark strait around July, at the time of their moulting periods, to mate. |
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| Juveniles have broader buff feather edges, and tend to have looser, scruffier plumage, like moulting adults. |
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| For Anatidae species, moulting sites are also critical. |
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| These cause uncontrollable, repeated moulting in insects ingesting the fronds, leading to rapid death. |
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| Longitudinal and transverse moulting sutures reaching submarginal furrow, longitudinal moulting suture crenate along median line. |
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| These water bodies are frequented by some twenty species, but the populations, which mainly consist of Canada geese and American black ducks, are particularly abundant during the spring migration and moulting seasons. |
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| The other project will focus on moulting black duck and is being conducted by Jacques Whitford Environment through an unsolicited proposal contract. |
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| It is known that the hooded seal is generally a solitary species, except during breeding and moulting seasons. |
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| South Georgia has one of the largest king penguin rookeries in the world, home to about 250,000 birds all simultaneously laying, gestating, moulting, eating and singing tuneless intergalactic folk songs to each other. |
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| If I set aside the rag-winged rooks and moulting lapwings, and forget the storms that this land has just endured, the morning seems utterly still. |
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| After moulting, the species disperses widely again to feed in the late summer and autumn before returning to the breeding areas again in late winter. |
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| A Kunitz-type protease inhibitor related protein is synthesized in Drosophila prepupal salivary glands and released into the moulting fluid during pupation. |
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