Its saliva contains a toxin that immobilises earthworms, letting it store them alive in underground larders.
From European Mole
Its tunnels can run for more than 100 metres.
From European Mole
It lives almost entirely underground, in damp, soft soil.
From European Mole
Its fur has a greenish or bronze metallic sheen, unique among mammals, that comes not from pigment but from the layered structure of each hair, just as in the wing cases of some beetles.
From Cape Golden Mole
It detects prey through vibrations in the soil thanks to an enormously enlarged malleus in the middle ear, which amplifies the rumble of termites on the move.
From Cape Golden Mole
It has 22 fleshy rays around its snout covered in thousands of touch receptors, and can identify and swallow prey in a fraction of a second, one of the fastest feeding reactions known in any mammal.
From Star-nosed Mole
Its nasal star packs more than 25,000 touch receptors into an area smaller than a human fingertip, the most sensitive touch organ known in any mammal.
From Star-nosed Mole
It is the fastest-eating mammal: it can find, identify and swallow a prey item in less than a quarter of a second, below the reaction time of the human nervous system.
From Star-nosed Mole

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