[NatureNS] re moles? re mounds on ground

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metabolic electricity of the prey animals. &amp;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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