what is the name of this animal ?

is that the head or the ass?

some kind of mole...

star nosed mole is the name of that I think

Holy shit, thats mad

That's the Condylura Cristata, or, as mentioned, the "Star Nosed Mole". It has more nerve endings in it's nose than we have in our hands. I seem to recall that it can also identify 'food' vs. 'non-food' at a very fast rate, but I wasn't paying too much attention to the documentary.

Benjamin

Juicy D Links ?

Freaky looking creature

fugly little bugger

The Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) is a small North American mole found in eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States. It is the only member of the tribe Condylurini and the genus Condylura.


The Star-nosed Mole lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates, aquatic insects, worms and mollusks. It is a good swimmer and can forage along the bottoms of streams and ponds. Like other moles, this animal digs shallow surface tunnels for foraging; often, these tunnels exit underwater. It is active day and night and remains active in winter, when it has been observed tunnelling through the snow and swimming in ice-covered streams. Little is known about the social behavior of the species, but it is suspected that it is colonial.

The Star-nosed Mole is covered in thick blackish brown water-repellent fur and has large scaled feet and a long thick tail, which appears to function as a fat storage reserve for the spring breeding season. Adults are 15 to 20 cm in length, weigh about 55 g, and have 44 teeth. The mole's most distinctive feature is a circle of 22 mobile, pink, fleshy tentacles at the end of the snout. These are used to identify food by touch, such as worms, insects and crustaceans.

The Star-nosed Mole mates in late winter or early spring, and the female has one litter of typically 4 or 5 young in late spring or early summer.

Predators include the Red-tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owl, various skunks and mustelids, and even large fish.

Nose

The incredibly sensitive nasal tentacles are covered with almost one hundred thousand minute touch receptors known as Eimer's organs. These were first described in the European Mole in 1871 by German zoologist Theodor Eimer. Other mole species also possess Eimer's organs, though they are not as specialized or numerous as in the Star-nosed Mole. Because the Star-nosed Mole is functionally blind, it had long been suspected that the snout was used to detect electrical activity in prey animals[3][4], though there is little, if any, empirical support for this contention. It appears the nasal star and dentition of this species are primarily adapted to exploit extremely small prey items. A report in the journal Nature gives this animal the title of fastest-eating mammal, taking as short as 120 milliseconds (average: 227 milliseconds) to identify and consume individual food items. Its brain decides in the ultra short time of 8 ms if a prey is comestible or not. This speed is at the limit of the speed of neurons. They also possess the ability to smell underwater. It is done by exhaling air bubbles onto objects or scent trails and then inhaling the bubbles to carry the smell back through the nose.[5]

The star of tentacles is formed in a unique way so far not seen other places in the animal world. Instead of growing in the same way fingers grow outward on a hand, they start as swellings on the face around the nose, and some days after birth they break free and move forward in the same way a banana is peeled.

that is very ugly

I thought it has no head at all.. weird

Hilarious!

thats scary looking

dunno but I heard it gives good head

It'd chomp on your dick in 8ms.

Heywoodjablowme, GFY?

freaky creature..

wow cool

weird creature!

Looks nice and fat. I bet they taste good.


Mole steaks anyone?

Never seen one before.

looks very weird

seal without head?

So ugly to be fascinating.

it's a reptilian chicken.. lols

looks like barbara streissand..

i dont like this, yuck!

I'd die if I went outside and saw that thing in my front yard.

that looks really nasty & scary!

cool thread...very informative

pretty weird lookin' mole

I dunno but you probably can get a really nice blowjob from one of those!! :P