| 1. | Only a proportion of the flight feathers are moulted each year.
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| 2. | Plucking is, in effect, pulling out the moulted fur.
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| 3. | Moulted carapaces of a variety of marine malacostraceans often wash up on beaches.
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| 4. | Some flocks may be force-moulted several times.
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| 5. | Some larvae reared by M . K . Thayer moulted twice before pupating.
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| 6. | Flight feathers are moulted simultaneously and birds are flightless for up to 4 weeks.
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| 7. | Only a week later, almost all the down is likely to be moulted.
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| 8. | The newly moulted male seeks a host.
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| 9. | The pup stays on the ice for about two weeks before the fur has moulted.
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| 10. | The tail feathers are moulted centrifugally.
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