Animals

The March of the Red Crab
A Moth Find a New Home
Suicidal Birds
A leopard and A cheetah
The Spectacular Hornbill
The Antelope with an extraordinary nose
Masquerading Males
Tiny But Powerful
Electric Fishes
Paternal Care
Hairless Cat
Passionate Parrot
Calling Out To Mother
Hot Wheels
Discs On Their Wings
Two-humped Camels
Frozen Frog
Silken Chambers
Earth Pig
Swordsman of the Sea
The Ostrich Trick
Electrifying Meal
Bizarre Turtle
Grey Whales
The Flying Lemur
The Winged Fishing Creature
Llamas
A Different Sort of a Parrot
The Tailless Cat
The Ancestor Of The Rhino
Acquisitive Wood Rats
The Butterflyfish
The Amazing Jumper
The Largest Deer
The Devil’s Coach-Horse
The Porcupine With A Prehensile Tail
The Irritating Fencing
The Acrobatic Otter
The Busy Termite Colony
Superb Mimics
The Canary
Snow Monkey
Jumping Spiders
Glass Lizard
Beetle Rhino
The World’s Smallest Bear
Hygienic Ants
Flat as a Pancake
The Carpet Shark
The Centipede Walk

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Tiny But Powerful

The world’s fastest-eating mammal is the star-nosed mole. It can gobble it’s prey in 227 milliseconds, that’s almost within a quarter of a second!
The mole is 20 cm long, one third of which is the tail. It weighs about 75 g. Although tiny, it has powerful paddle-shaped hands with which it digs its home, which is a network of tunnels half a metre under the ground.
At the tip of its snout is a pink, fleshy disc with 22 finger-like tentacles or feelers, that gives it a star-like appearance, and its name. The 25000 odd sensory receptors in the tentacles enable the mole to navigate on land as well as in water, in search of worms, insects and crustaceans.

The mole is a good swimmer and spends most of its time in water, including icy cold waters – something only a few mammals can do.
A native of North America, the star-nosed mole lives in burrows close to marshlands.

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Last updated on :10/30/2006

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