Ever seen a nose like this?!
It belongs to a very unusual little animal.
Meet the star-nosed mole.
Star-Nosed Mole
Crazy skill: amazing sense of touch!
Crazy Skill:
Sense of Touch
Like all moles, the star-nosed mole has terrible eyesight, so to find food underground, it follows its nose.
But it isn’t using its strange-looking nose to smell… it’s using it to touch.
Each of these pink, fleshy tentacles is like a super-sensitive fingertip, feeling around in the dark.
The mole’s nose has more touch sensors than a human hand!
This means it can work out if something’s worth eating, and gobble it up, in less than a quarter of a second… faster than the blink of an eye!
So how crazy is the star-nosed mole?
Its nose is made up of fleshy tentacles, which it uses to feel around for food in the dark!
fleshy tentacles
feels for food
That’s pretty crazy!