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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 adults were taken in each month from May through August.

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

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.