There are many secrets on earth, have you ever seen a lizard like durian? Have you ever seen a bird like a ghost? Today, let's take a look at five strange and real creatures in the world, especially the first, which drinks with their feet!
The fifth place - the star-nosed mole
Star-nosed mole
It looks like it ran out of a science fiction movie. It looks like a combination of a mouse and an octopus and is smaller than a regular mouse. The star-nosed mole rat is the fastest predator in the world. Its ugliness lies in its nose, which has 22 tentacles on the tip of its distinctive flower-pink nose, through which the star-nosed mole can find its prey in complete darkness.
Its nose can touch more than 12 places per second, so the star-nosed mole can accurately catch prey in an ultra-short time of 1/4 second and eat extremely quickly, it only takes 0.25 seconds to identify prey and eat prey, it is also known as the fastest eating animal in the world, this speed makes it a Guinness World Record holder. What is 0.25 seconds! We finished a meal in the blink of an eye!
Star-nosed moles looking for food
Like other moles, it looks for earthworms in the soil, in addition, it also eats a variety of small invertebrate and insect larvae in the nutrient-rich mud and rotten leaves of wetland habitats, and dives into the murky waters of ponds and streams to find prey.
But unlike the common mole, which lives on land, the star-nosed mole rat is very suitable for underwater life. It has good water properties and can dive underwater to prey on a variety of small aquatic animals. The most amazing thing is that it can smell food underwater with its nose.
Other species of mole
American researchers have found that when the star-nosed mole dives, it constantly spits out bubbles from its nostrils and then quickly sucks them back. The frequency can even reach 10 beats per second, which is very similar to what a mouse or rabbit smells in the air. After that, the researchers made a maze filled with water with two forks to choose from. When there is an earthworm on one side, three times out of four star-nosed mole rats will choose the path with earthworms and put nothing, the probability that a star-nosed mole will choose two paths is almost half. After the bubbles touch the objects in the water, the odor molecules diffuse into it and are then inhaled by the star-nosed mole rat so that the star-nosed mole can smell the smell in the water.
Starnose moles usually mate in winter or early spring. From late spring to early summer, the mother of the star-nosed mole usually gives birth to a litter of 3-7 mice per litter. There are many litters, the species distribution is wide, and it is not close to the threshold of species vulnerability, and as of 2008, the star-nosed mole is a non-threatened species in the IUCN Red List.
Star-nosed mole cubs
Star-nosed moles go out of the day and night, know where there is food by smell, and after eating, they fight in twos and threes, chase, get hungry or find new delicious food, and then eat together. It belongs to small groups of animals and has a spirit of solidarity. High IQ, very flexible and cunning, afraid of people, sneaky activities. When exiting the cave, the two front paws climb to the edge of the cave and look left and right to ensure safety before exiting the cave. It prefers to establish a fixed route between the nest, food, and water sources to avoid danger. Strong eyesight, although most of the time it is not by the eyes to determine the location of prey, the eyes of the star-nosed mole can see things in the deep sea for nearly 100 meters. Sensitive to smell, the snout of the star-nosed mole can search for prey in the water. This animal's perception system is so sensitive that it can detect animals within 8 milliseconds.
But in any case, appearance is innate, no matter how strange these animals look, we still have to treat them well, because life is fragile!
Foreshadowing, tomorrow I will introduce you to the fourth strange animal - sea slugs#knowledge##animals##popular science#