Mole-rat
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MOLE-RAT, the name of a group of blind burrowing rodents, typified by the large grey Spalax typhlus of eastern Europe and Egypt, which represents the Old World family Spalacidae.
Mole Kingsnake
Lampropeltis calligaster
Photo by JD Willson
Description: The mole kingsnake is brown or gray with small reddish or dark brown blotches on its back.
Mole Kingsnake
(Lampropeltis calligaster rhombomaculata)
DESCRIPTION: This is a smooth, shiny snake that grows to lengths of 30-40 in. (76-102 cm).
Mole
Mole: Talpa europaea
Distribution: Great Britain, except Ireland; throughout rest of Europe and Asia.
Habitat: Lives mostly underground in pasture, woodland and gardens; absent from high moors, mountains and acid soils.
Mole Kingsnake
Relatives in same Genus
Gray-banded Kingsnake (L. alterna)
Prairie Kingsnake (L. calligaster calligaster)
California Kingsnake (L. getula californiae)
Florida Kingsnake (L. getula floridana)
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Mole
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in zoology, common name for the small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae, found throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Mole Skink (Eumeces egregius)
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The Mole Skink is from the order Squamata. Species from this order are amphisbaenians, lizards or snakes.
Mole Small burrowing carnivorous mammal, native to Europe, Asia, and North America.
The mole is a burrowing mammal with substantial claws. It lives underground for most of its life. About 30 species of moles are found worldwide; they inhabit Asia, Europe, southern Africa, and North America.
Habitat/Range: Mole salamanders range across the coastal plain of the southeastern United States and may be found in isolated populations in North Carolina.
Mole (Talpa europaea)
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Moles are industrious diggers and can create 20m of tunnel per day. They leave characteristic mounds of earth on the surface as they excavate their tunnels.
Mole Kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster)
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Mole rats have a wide geographical distribution and can live below sea level or high on mountainside plains. Because of their burrowing lifestyle, they do prefer areas with sandy or loamy soil. Many mole rat species are found in sub-Saharan Africa.
Mole salamanders (family Ambystomidae) have rounded snouts. Their larvae have feathery external gills.
Mole rats live in large underground colonies, from 20 to 300 individuals, in the semi-arid regions of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. They have a social system much like ants, termites or bees.
A mole's diet primarily consists of earthworms and other small invertebrates found in the soil. The mole may also occasionally catch small mice at the entrance to its burrow.
A mole-rat colony creates a huge underground network of burrows and chambers, which can include more than two miles of tunnels and can cover an area the size of 20 football fields.
The mole excavates its burrow by backward strokes and lateral thrusts of the front feet. Loose earth is moved and pushed to the surface by thrusts of the front feet.
This mole prefers forested areas or old pasture land where soil is relatively dry and loose. Moles's forelimbs are adapted for digging. The hands are turned permanently outward.
Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)
Below you will find a collection of photos from various places. Except where noted, pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler, copyright 1994-2007. While these images are the property of mongabay.
Naked mole-rats are a popular exhibit in the Small Mammal House. They are blind, nearly hairless, and live in underground colonies with one breeding queen.
The Naked Truth about Mole-Rats
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Naked Mole-Rats (Heterocephalus glaber) are almost hairless rodents that live in burrows and tunnels in semi-arid, grassy regions of Africa.
EUROPEAN MOLE
HABITS
Moles are active during the day and and night, digging their tunnels and searching for food. Mole tunnels vary in depth from just below the surface to 28 inches beneath the ground.
Damaraland mole rat (Cryptomys damarensis)
Zambian mole-rat (Cryptomys anselli)
Vinogradov's jerboa (Allactaga vinogradovi)
New Holland mouse (Pseudomys novaehollandiae)
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Marsupial mole
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The Persian mole is known only from one locality in Kurdistan Province, northwest Iran. It is found only in small patches of habitat that have experienced intensive environmental disruption and military activity.
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The European mole is entirely carnivorous: it consumes about its own bodyweight of food per day, mainly composed of earthworms. The senses of hearing, touch and smell are well developed and make up for its poor sight.
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Diet The hairy-tailed mole spends the day tunneling under the ground and searching for food. It sometimes comes out at night to search for food. It eats earthworms, grubs, beetles, ants and other invertebrates.
Mole Salamanders
Species I've seen:
Ambystoma gracile
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Eastern Mole
Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus)
Description: Eastern moles are related to shrews, and of the four kinds of insectivores in Kansas, they are best adapted to underground life.
Eastern Mole
Order: Insectivora
Family: Talpidae
Scalopus aquaticus - northern form
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Mole Salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum
The Mole Salamander is one of the smaller members of the family Ambystomatidae, attaining lengths around 4 inches.
Mole rats are not highly mobile and many isolated populations exist that are morphologically similar but differ in their number and arrangement of chromosomes.
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Mole (Southern Marsupial Mole)
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Mole Kingsnake Lampropeltis calligaster rhombomaculata. Uncommon to rare in Coastal Plain, uncommon elsewhere. Thought to occur statewide, but records are lacking from substantial areas. A secretive burrowing snake of woods and fields.
The mole salamanders spend the majority of the year feeding in subterranean tunnels in the woodlands that surround seasonal pools. Their diet consists of snails, worms, insect larvae, spiders, isopods, crickets, and other small animals they encounter.
This mole spends most of its time underground, foraging in shallow burrows for earthworms, grubs, beetles, insect larvae and some plant matter. They are active year round. These animals are mainly solitary except during mating in early spring.
Eastern Mole
Scalopus aquaticus
Southern Connecticut River valley, southern Plymouth County, and Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket counties.
Like other mole salamanders in West Virginia, Marbled Salamanders remain underground until the breeding period. Unlike the other species of this genus, they breed and deposit eggs in the autumn.
Star-nosed Mole
Uses its fleshy star nose for hunting. The Star-nosed mole has 100,000 nerve fibers that run from star to the brain. This is almost six times more than the touch receptors in the human hand.
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Phacochoerus (mole or wart, hog) aethiopicus, Phacochoerus africanus
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Robbins C.T., Mole S., Hagerman A.E. & Hanley T.A. 1987. Role of tannins in defending plants against ruminants: reduction in dry matter digestion. Ecol. 68: 1 606-1 615.
Hule (Greek) a mole or wart on the body khoiros (Greek) a pig or hog. Colonel R. Meinertzhagen (1878-1967), the naturalist who discovered this pig, was in East Africa from 1902-1905.
The short-snouted mole squirms and wiggles their flexible bodies through the earth, pushing dirt balls along, and than flattening the soil pieces against a tunnel wall.
Also Called: Duck-mole
The platypus has a flat, streamlined body. They have a muzzle shaped like the bill of a duck, webbed feet, and a tail like that of a beaver. The bill is not hard like that of a bird.
Mole Cricket
Molecular detection of hybridisation between sympatric kangaroo species in south-eastern Australia
Molecular phylogenetic relationships of the Night Parrot (Geospittacus occidentalis) ...
Variation in the feeding kinematics of mole salamanders (Ambystomatidae: Ambystoma) Canadian Journal of Zoology. 73(2): 353-366. [28330]
5. Beneski, John T., Jr.; Zalisko, Edward J.; Larsen, John H., Jr. 1986.
eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus aquaticus)
eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis borealis)
eastern small-footed myotis (Myotis leibii)
eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius putorius)
evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis humeralis) ...
European Mole (Talpa europaea) The European mole, and possibly other species of mole [3], has toxins in its saliva that can paralyze earthworms, allowing it to store them for later consumption [4].
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Beautifully erect, it stands on the highest fence-stake, the broken top of a tree, the summit of a grain stack, or the corner of the barn, patiently and silently waiting until it espies a mole, a field-mouse, a cricket, or a grasshopper, ...
: Like ants and bees, naked mole-rats are considered eusocial animals. They live in highly structured, co-operative colonies.
Marbled salamanders are one of two species of mole (Ambystomid) salamanders that have been detected in Rhode Island. Mole salamanders are fossorial, therefore they are rarely observed above ground, with the exception of their brief breeding season.
This species is a kind of mole salamander,
a group of North American amphibians that include the tiger salamander and the axolotl. Salamanders look like lizards, but are not. They start out living in the water, and then move out onto the land.
However, those piles of rich-looking, black soil, usually in grassy areas (often incorrectly called "mole hills" -- there are no moles within 1000 kms of Calgary), have been created by these totally subterranean rototillers.
The prairie kingsnake is one of two subspecies of calligaster; the other species is the mole kingsnake (L. c. rhombomaculata) to the east. In Louisiana, the prairie kingsnake is found west of the Mississippi River.
Sometimes a mole salamander (Ambystomatidae) will also keep gills into adulthood. These mole salamanders are called axolotls and never leave the water for their land stage. They are like adults with the features of the larval stage... Amphibians ...
This species, like others in the mole salamander family, spends most of its adult life underground. The adults are active and will bite and twist their bodies around if handled. The gilled, fin-tailed larvae are seen much more often.
They are divided into about ten subgroups including mole salamanders, amphiumas, giant salamanders and hellbenders, Pacific giant salamanders, Asiatic salamanders, lungless salamanders, mudpuppies and waterdogs, torrent salamanders, ...
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