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Molting peacocks squawked in the distance and a Pacific breeze whispered through the eucalyptus as flamingo keeper Liz Gibbons tidied her station at the San Francisco Zoo.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

And everyone who deserves one, has a happy Molting Day — apparently, the bird equivalent of Christmas.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2019

Breathless Caterpillars Await Molting Four or five times along its road to moth- or butterfly-hood, a caterpillar molts to make room for a larger exoskeleton.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2011

Molting voles of the species ochrogaster were trapped in each month of the year.

From Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] by Jameson, E. W.

Molting adults were taken in each month from May through August.

From Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota by Andersen, Kenneth W.