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Uncommon card · Nature
Moulting, an Uncommon card
In biology, moulting, or molting, also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 124
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 94,000
Power 124 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Moulting quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Moulting card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Moulting can involve shedding the ______, pelage, or other external layer.
Answer
epidermis. Moulting can involve shedding the epidermis, pelage, or other external layer. From the Moulting article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Tagetes. Tagetes 180,000 · Moulting 94,000 · Chenab River 69,000 · Basement membrane 32,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In medieval times, it was also known as "mewing", a term that lives on in the name of Britain's Royal Mews where the King's hawks used to be kept during moulting time before becoming horse stables after Tudor times.
- Moulting can involve shedding the epidermis, pelage, or other external layer.
- In some groups, other body parts may be shed, for example, the entire exoskeleton in arthropods, including the wings in some insects.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Moulting article was read about 94,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 59: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Moulting
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Moulting (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Clinton & Charles Robertson from Del Rio, Texas & College Station, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
