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Tobacco is another substance that moles find to be foul. You can sprinkle it all over the mole’s tunnel system, mole hills, and specific points around your yard, such as your garden, to prevent them from returning. Other common household substances you can sprinkle in your yard include:

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Inside the Bizarre Life of the Star-Nosed Mole, World's Fastest Eater”. Accessed July 02, 2019. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/star-nosed-mole-touch-pain-senses/. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Catania, Kenneth C. (2011). "The sense of touch in the star-nosed mole: from mechanoreceptors to the brain". Philos Trans R Soc B. 366 (1581): 3016–3025. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0128. PMC 3172592. PMID 21969683. If the receptor potential is maintained and the generated current is enough to reach the node of Ranvier, then the threshold is reached to produce an action potential. The star-nose is a highly specialized sensory-motor organ shaped by 22 fleshy finger-like appendages, or tendrils, that ring their nostrils and are in constant motion as the mole explores its environment. The star itself is a centimeter across and thus has a diameter slightly smaller than a typical human fingertip. [16] Nevertheless, it is much larger than the nose of other mole species, covering 0.92cm 2 (0.14in 2) per touch compared to 0.11cm 2 (0.02in 2) covered by the noses of other mole species. This structure is divided into a high resolution central fovea region (the central 11th pair of rays) and less sensitive peripheral areas. [17] In this way, the star works as a "tactile eye" where the peripheral rays (1–10 on each side) study the surroundings with erratic saccade-like movements and direct the 11th ray to objects of interest, just like the primate’s foveating eye. [18] Keep an eye on the remainder of the tunnel system. You’ll want to look for any movement or new tunnels being made.

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Arlton, A.V. (1936). "An Ecological Study of the Mole". Journal of Mammalogy. 17 (4): 349–371. doi: 10.2307/1374401. JSTOR 1374401. The ermine or stoat lives in some parts of North America, so it shares a habitat with the mole. Stoats make their homes in nests or underground tunnels, but they themselves do not dig. Instead, they’ll invade a mole’s burrow and kill them for mole tunnels. Buzzards Prefer moist-to-damp soil and will seek out habitats near bodies of water as well as in marshes, swamps, and other areas with poor drainage The poor eyesight of a mole means the mammal might not see a buzzard coming until it’s too late. Buzzards may share similar hours to a mole, so if a mole ventures outside its burrow, it’s in trouble. Owls

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The importance of the star-like nose in the mole’s lifestyle is evidenced in the somatosensory representation of the nose. Electrophysiological experiments using electrodes placed on the cortex during stimulation of the body demonstrated that roughly 52% of the cortex is devoted to the nose. This means that more than half of the brain is dedicated to processing sensory information acquired by this organ, even when the nose itself is only roughly 10% of the mole’s actual size. Thus, it may be concluded that the nose substitutes for the eyes, with the information from it being processed so as to produce a tactile map of the environment under the mole’s nose. As other mammals, the somatosensory cortex of the star-nosed mole is somatotopically organized such that sensory information from adjacent parts of the nose is processed in adjacent regions of the somatosensory cortex. Therefore, the rays are also represented in the brain. The inferior most sensitive pair of rays (11th) had a larger representation on the somatosensory cortex, even when these are the shortest pair of appendages in the nose of the star-nosed mole. Moles move through the dirt in their burrows at speeds of up to four miles per hour to catch worms or escape enemies.For instance, the small-toothed mole of Vietnam and China was classified as critically endangered in 1996, but is now considered “data deficient,” which means scientists don’t have enough information to know how the species is faring.



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