Sentences with phrase «when molting»

When molting occurs, the seal is susceptible to the cold, and must rest on land, in a safe place called a «haul out».

So what happens when a molting Hooded Warbler loses all its tail feathers while it is still feeding nestlings or fledglings?

The goliath birdeater, Marshall found, uses its hairs to create a special silken mat on which it lies upside down when molting.

Two encouraging signs for the wild larvae: They are alive when collected, and they may lose the oil droplets when they molt, Perry says.

With their unique diving abilities that allow them to swim where few humans have gone before, ocean mammals such as sea lions (pictured) are being outfitted with sensors that stick to their fur and later fall off when they molt.

Grooming should be done bi-weekly during off - molting seasons and weekly when their molts are in full swing.

Not exact matches

And we opened that morning the nets and suddenly we're just going to teach the students the feathers and the molting patterns because they're so important and for surprise when we put the net one of those birds went into our net.

When Nweeia learned about narwhal molting for the first time, he knew that he had to part with the traditional scientific approach that validates facts through large sample sizes.

Third, the birds employ the odd strategy of molting and replacing all their tail feathers simultaneously at a time when they are also replacing the primary flight feathers on each wing.

Migratory birds desert their offspring to molt: When parental care and the annual molt overlap in time, a migratory songbird often chooses single - parent desertion.»

The new study, published in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, a journal of the American Ornithological Society, examines the trade - offs that birds make when parental care overlaps with the annual molt.

Interestingly, when the glycosidase - silenced larvae ingested lyciumoside IV, they failed to molt and eventually died.

In 1978 a few thousand greylag geese landed at Oostvaardersplassen for molting season, the vulnerable spring month when they grow new feathers.

For example, when I look at the images of Pluto, I was not surprised by the molted surface and Pluto's shades of reddish brown compared to the more cream colored Charon.

In a prior study, when larvae were fed upon infected / treated and infected / untreated mice, the ticks were allowed to molt and were used to feed upon naïve SCID mice.

When subsequently fed as nymphs, infected larvae retained the spirochetes through the molt and transmitted them to naïve mice.

When insects eat neem - coated foliage, the liminoids disrupt normal hormone production and processing, causing a loss of appetite in some insects and interfering with normal reproduction, maturation, and molting patterns in others (2).

Besides multi-vitamin and mineral supplements, a number of other nutritional additives, such as calcium, are available that can help when a bird is stressed, sick, in need of extra support for their immune system or when they are molting or breeding.

A twice a week comb through should suffice, except in the molting season when more frequent grooming would be better.

When your hamster molts he is shedding some of his old coat and regrowing new fur in its place.

Need anything be done when an Angora molts?

Like most rabbit breeds, the Champagne d'Argent rabbit will also go through a seasonal molt (much like a dog when it sheds in the Spring) and during that time, you will have to groom them a little more often than usual.

When flea eggs hatch (or molt), natural hormones allow for the more mature physical traits of a larva to be created.

Some females sing when they are young but stop after their first molt.

When ingested by a mosquito, the microfilariae undergo a series of molts to the infective third larval stage, and then migrate to the salivary glands of the mosquito, where they wait to infect another host.

Owners should increase grooming when a rabbit is undergoing extreme seasonal molting.

The white - footed mouse is the main source for the Lyme bacteria so when feeding on the mouse the larval tick picks up the bacteria from the blood meal then carries this to the next stage of its life, falls off the mouse host and molts into a nymph.

A specialized supplement might be appropriate when a bird is stressed in any way, such as after being relocated, when it is molting or breeding or experiencing a change in its environment.

The molted feathers and discarded food bits «will be just damp enough to clump» on the litter or paper in the tray at the bottom and won't end up on the floor when cleaning, she says.

The length of day is one factor that sets up when the rabbit will molt.

Danger: Rabbits groom as cats do, thereby ingesting hair, especially when they are molting.

[7] When it comes time to molt, they will haul out on land to shed their outer layer, and will not consume any food during this time.

The three peak times of the year to view the seals is in late January (when most births have occurred), early May (the peak of the juvenile / adult female molt), and in late October (juvenile haul - out).

Sea lions are occasionally seen on beaches when they are molting.

[7] The turbinate process, another unique adaptation, is very beneficial when these seals are fasting, breeding, molting, or hauling out.

There were patterns, textures, and colors to be photographed when we watched the young «weaners» as they molted.

When an animal molts, it sheds its hard outer skin or shell and replaces it with a new one, says Murphy, from the McGowan Institute.

Photographer Bill Amidon calls this beautiful blushing beauty an «unusually rosy waxwing,» adding «When young Cedar Waxwings molt, the pigment of their new feathers can be affected by the berries they eat.»