Sentence examples for molt it from inspiring English sources

During the winter molt it sheds all its feathers; in the spring, it sheds all but the wing and tail feathers, which are dark brown in the female and black in the male.

The cyclic activity of hair follicles is the mechanism by which mammals molt; it thus enables animals to alter their coats as they grow or as they adjust to changing temperature-control or camouflage requirements.

In order to compare changes in the genital system before and after the maturation molt, it was necessary to evaluate both male age groups along a single continuum of age.

Notably, the terminal web is by far the most stable cellular component also in the intestine of this organism, since, at molt, it persists in the lumen as a compact filamentous network even after cell lysis (unpublished results).

If its "molting" it would be around 6 months,which is a good time to train your budgie.

When a tarantula is molting, it often lies on its back and may appear to be dead.

After several molts, it attains a length of 45 mm (almost 2 inches).

The full series of larval molts takes around 7 months, and when the last stage molts, it metamorphoses into the puerulus state, which is a juvenile form of the adult, albeit still transparent.

Given the multiple selective pressures favoring synchronized molting over uncoordinated molting, it would follow that synchronized molting should be the rule among arthropods, but it is not.

Because THs are important in feather growth after molting, it is possible that disruption of TH homeostasis by OCs is involved in the reported wing asymmetry in glaucous gulls (Verreault et al. 2004).

If a hermit crab is not moving during molting, it could be dead.