Sentences with phrase «of molting»

In April, we observed these «weaners» in the final stages of molting the shiny black coats in which they were born and preparing to depart.

This keratin sometimes becomes flaky which is a normal part of this molting of the outer layers of keratin.

Soft - shell or «shedder» lobsters — that is, adult lobsters in the yearly process of molting — hit Maine's markets in June and become more plentiful as the summer wears on.

She says that it has been a recalcitrant question exactly how tardigrades are related to seven other phyla of molting animals known as ecdysozoans, a group that includes both arthropods and nematodes.

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.

«Steroids, the precursors of molting hormones, are lipids.

But precisely this aspect of Molt - mann's work is also political theology and is recognised and named as such by him.

«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 tool is soft enough to be used every day without damaging your pet's skin, keeping his coat healthy and shiny while also reducing the amount of molted hair that shows up in your home.

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.

Not exact matches

Numerous cultures in SE Asia are changing with the times and accepting molted tail feathers from endangered hornbills species maintained in zoos instead of harvesting / killing them in the wild so that they can meet their cultural / religious needs without killing off the species... why can't this Native American tribe do the same?

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Bed bugs molt during their life cycle, so they leave a lot of exoskeletons behind.

After a successful breeding season — during which we welcomed a new rockhopper chick into our care — both the rockhopper and Magellanic penguins are in various stages of their annual molt, a process that will span several weeks.

An expanding ice - free season also means bears» stay on land would overlap the entire caribou calving season and a good portion of a booming geese population's molt and egg - laying season.

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.

Many species of mammals and birds molt from summer brown to winter white coats to facilitate camouflage.

Greater proportions of the populations molted to white in higher latitudes.

He was mistaken about its origins: The common bedbug, Cimex lectularius, emerges by night from the walls of houses or bedding to quaff the blood the insect needs to molt from nymph to adult.

These observations indicate that Hooded Warblers are acutely sensitive to the costs of providing parental care during molt.

He is currently investigating the effects of single - parent desertion on growth and survival of offspring, and how females adjust their molt and migration schedules to deal with male desertion.

«It may just be an unavoidable consequence of the prolonged nesting season and early male molt, and females are able to deal with it just fine.»

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.

Hooded Warblers have an unusual combination of traits that makes conflicts between parental care and molt likely.

«If the costs of continuing care are relatively modest — for example, if it's an experienced male with offspring close to independence,» says Mumme, «a molting parent may elect not to desert.»

This radical solution to conflict between parental care and the annual molt provides «a nice illustration of the complex lives that migratory songbirds lead,» says Ron Mumme, the study's author and Professor of Biology at Allegheny College in northwestern Pennsylvania.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

«Sea ice is critical for Arctic marine mammals because events such as feeding, giving birth, molting, and resting are closely timed with the availability of their ice platform,» Laidre said.

The good news is that there will be a lot of pressure on the hares to evolve a new calendar for molting.

Researchers measured tracheal tube sizes in tobacco hornworm caterpillars (Manduca sexta) throughout their development and found that, while the rest of the organisms» bodies grow between molts, the tubes do not.

Gates: The key point the book makes is that reuse is a stronger benefit energy-wise than recycle, because in recycle you, in the case of the metals, you molt it again, and so you're actually using almost as much energy — aluminum say half as much — but almost as much energy — actually, it's less than half.

Twenty - one species of mammals and birds rely on the ability to change their coat color from brown in summer to white in winter to avoid fatal encounters with predators, but in some parts of their range individuals forgo the white molt and remain brown in winter.

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.

We carefully staged wild - type (w1118) larvae at the molt to the L3, fed them for 12 h, and then starved them for 12 h on non-nutritive agar to eliminate the effect of normal fly food.

The name stuck even though the opposite turned out to be true; this type of nebula consists of gas molted from dying stars.

Separation and partial characterization of proteinases with substrate specificity for basic amino acids from human MOLT - 4 T lymphocytes: identification of those inhibited by variable - loop - V3 peptides of HIV - 1 (human immunodeficiency virus - 1) envelope glycoprotein

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).

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She lives in a flat full of thugs, some of whom the kid is related to, and all of whom take him under their collective, molting wing.

It was opened in response to a request from Emil Molt, the owner of the Waldorf - Astoria Cigarette Company in the same location.

Experts on bird mating, however, say the owl's extensive molting and twig - gathering behavior, as well as its alleged lining of a nest with clumps of grass and feathers, suggest that the bird was sexually active during the weeks it spent with the vice president.

In the thin light his new body looks ridiculously narrow and soft, its skin beneath a pelt of hair as pale and shriveled as a molting nymph's.

I was sure Auntie Ushag knew nothing of these warm hollows filled with dry leaves and molted fur, or those caves up the gorge where bats hang all day like drying kelp.

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.

Some protein can be beneficial and even a necessity for some species of birds and those that are breeding or molting.

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

During the molting of feathers, additional fat, protein and vitamins may be required in the diet.

Yorkshire Terriers do not molt, and this can cause problems with the health of their skin and coat.

They are, however, seasonal shedders, so brushing them regularly during molting season will help prevent the spread of dog hair throughout the home.

From the site of the mosquito bite, the larvae molt and travel through the pet's body, until they enter the pet's heart and pulmonary vessels in the lungs.