| 21. | By now, the male tanagers have molted, partly or fully, from their scarlet summer plumage to a drab olive.
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| 22. | For example, the domesticated silver foxes have been seen to have molted or spotted colored fur and they have become tamer.
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| 23. | So now, in late spring, most of the Lake Carmel geese are so heavily molted that they will soon become flightless.
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| 24. | That Billy Sinclair was shucked off, molted like an old, dirty skin, long before I met the Billy Sinclair I married.
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| 25. | The juvenile pelage is pale and quite similar to the adults'summer fur, and is molted when the young reaches adult size.
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| 26. | Unusually, the birds seem to have molted after breeding season; 2 females shot in April had worn plumage ( Bannerman 1963 ).
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| 27. | Its pelage is commonly brown or grey, molted twice a year during September and October with males and females having different molting periods.
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| 28. | "That means they've molted about 25 times and beaten odds of about 1, 000 to 1 for surviving,"
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| 29. | The body wall consists of a thin syncitial layer, which secretes a tough cuticle; this is molted several times while growing to adulthood.
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| 30. | After drawing El Blanco away, they find that the Shriekers have molted their skin, becoming winged creatures capable of jet-propelled flight.
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