But... keep your distance: approaching too closely will stress the animal and could disrupt her moulting process.

Camps Bay beach has a rare guest – a female southern elephant seal who has hauled out onto the sand to moult. In this process ...

If you do come across a moulting penguin then you should follow the Countryside Code and keep yourself, others, dogs, horses and vehicles at least 6 meters away. The only time a moulting penguin ...

These crabs come together to shed their old shells in a process called moulting. It was our first day of filming and although the crabs had stayed in place for the last week, today they had ...

Professor Richard Fortey investigates the reproductive cycle of crabs. The moulting process is where the female sheds her exoskeleton by releasing enzymes that digest the shell and then ...