Sentences with phrase «first molt»

Before the first molt pups are woolly and have a generally darker coat than adult foxes.

The L3 larva goes through its first molt to the L4 within the first 15 days and as early as 2 - 5 days after infection.

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

Not exact matches

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.

«Whereas the avian annual cycle may be synchronized to segregate the major energy - demanding functions of molt, migration and reproduction, we recognize that events during any one phase of the annual cycle have repercussions across the entire annual cycle,» adds Frank Moore of the University of Southern Mississippi, the ornithologist who first outlined the two hypotheses.

The first thing you need to do is determine if your bird is really exhibiting feather plucking, and is not just grooming, preening, or molting.

These larvae attach to their first host, usually a small rodent - type animal, feed, fall off, molt into nymphs and attach to a larger host.

They can grow their flight feathers out after the first juvenile molt because they are less likely to damage themselves.

They go through their first two molts and change from an L1 to an L2 and then an L2 to an L3 (third stage of development of the larva).

[7] The females and juveniles will molt first, followed by the sub adult males, and finally the large mature males.

From looking at its molting pattern, researchers determined that the little guy (or gal) was only in its first days or weeks of life before succumbing to the resin.