shedding

Casting off the outer layer of one's body. A natural part of life for many different organisms.

• Shedding feathers like a bird
• Shedding fur like a mammal
• Shedding skin like a reptile
• Ecdysis like an arthropod

The following tags implicate this tag: ecdysis, shedding_feathers, shedding_fur, and shedding_skin (learn more).