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metabolic electricity of the prey animals. &n Here's a quite good article on the star-nosed mole, specifically the function of the star: Star of the Swamp www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Animals/Archives/1997/Star-of-the-Swamp.aspx Here's another, but it's not readily available for free: Snouts: A star is born in a very odd way. From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 17, October 23, 1999, p. 261. The Highbeam Research site has this teaser for the latter: The 22 pink rays that sprout from the snout of the star-nosed mole develop in a way unlike any other animal appendage, a Tennessee-based research team says. The wiggling, touch-sensitive nose rays don't bud straight out from the body wall--the basic strategy for human limbs, insect legs, fish fins, sea urchin spines, and a huge range of other animal equipment, reports Kenneth C. Catania of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Instead, the sides of the mole's face swell into ridges that round into fat little cylinders embedded in the skin. After the moles are born, the cylinders come loose at the back end and spring forward to form the species' distinctive nose fringe. … Cheers, Doug Linzey
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