A ScienceFriday video podcast from over a year ago on how the star-nosed mole and other mammals can actually sniff for prey underwater.
I wonder if this is what my dog is doing and she sticks her nose to the base of the door and snorts as people approach.
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THIS weird and wonderful creature is the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata), a small, semi-aquatic mammal which inhabits the low wetlands of eastern North America. Like other moles, it ekes out an existence in a network of narrow underground tunnels, and digs shallow surface tunnels where it…
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Front view of a star-nosed mole. Credit: Ken Catania
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Kinda makes me want to throw a Thanksgiving turkey in a pool and see if I can smell it. :3
Very cool.
Real cool video, thanks for bringing it to us!
There's a funny water creature in French Pyrenean ranges : Galemys pyrenaicus, (pyrenean desman) it's got a trumpet nose and I wonder if the behavior is the same.
Here a link to see photos : http://www.afleurdepau.com/Faune/Desman/Desman.htm
and here for the french limited readers ;) http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Galemys…
Real cool video, thanks for bringing it to us!
There's a funny water creature in French Pyrenean ranges : Galemys pyrenaicus, (pyrenean desman) it's got a trumpet nose and I wonder if the behavior is the same.
Here a link to see photos : http://www.afleurdepau.com/Faune/Desman/Desman.htm
and here for the french limited readers ;) http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Galemys…
Thanksgiving turkey in a pool and see if...
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