The star-nosed mole is active all year round. Even in winter it spends a good deal of its time in the water, where it is an able swimmer. The star-nosed mole prefers wet, swampy ground and subsists on a diet of worms, insects and crustaceans.
Star-nosed moles
Life
Equally successful underground and underwater.
The star-nosed mole is active both by day and night. It appears to rely most heavily on its tactile sense, particularly that of its star.
Star-nosed Mole
Order: Insectivora
Family: Talpidae
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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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The Star-nosed Mole can detect, catch and eat food faster than the human eye can follow (under 300 milliseconds).
The Star-nosed Mole, Condylura cristata, is found in moist soils in Leon and Alachua Counties and in the Okefenokee Swamp. It is brownish black or black with a paler belly. Twenty-two fleshy appendages form a star around the nasal openings.
Condylura cristata (Star-nosed Mole)
Desmana moschata
Erinaceus europaeus (European Hedgehog)
Scalopus aquaticus (Eastern Mole)
Sorex araneus (Common Shrew)
Talpa europaea (European Mole) ...
star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata cristata)
star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata parva)
Stone's southern bog lemming (Synaptomys cooperi stonei)
striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis nigra)
striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis mephitis) ...
The oddest exception to this is the star-nosed mole that inhabits parts of Canada and the northeast of the USA. The star-nosed mole can be easily identified by the distinctive star shaped ending to the star-nosed moles snout.
SORICOMORPHA: Talpidae (Moles and Shrew-Moles)
Common Name Scientific Name Distribution
Star-nosed Mole
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Some kinds, the otter shrews of Africa and the star-nosed mole of America, for example, feed also upon fish. The Townsend mole of the Pacific Northwest often is a nuisance to bulb growers because of its fondness for the bulbs of many kinds of plants.
the fingers of primates and the nasal tentacles of star-nosed moles). Touch also serves many communication functions, and is often associated with social behavior (e.g., social grooming). (Vaughan, Ryan, and Czaplewski, 2000) ...
The strangest-looking of the family is the star-nosed mole, Condylure christata, of northeastern North America, which has a ring of mobile fleshy protuberances around its snout.
 See also: Mole, Earthworm, Burro, Mouse, Otter
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