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The species is a solitary subterranean insectivore, confined to the coastal regions of the southwestern and southern Cape in South Africa. When foraging for small, soil invertebrates and small lizards, these golden moles excavate superficial burrows using their conical nose shield and highly modified forefeet. [2] Females are smaller than males.
Golden moles are small insectivorous burrowing mammals endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. They comprise the family Chrysochloridae (the only family in the suborder Chrysochloridea ) and as such they are taxonomically distinct from the true moles , family Talpidae , and other mole -like families, all of which, to various degrees, they resemble as a ...
Amblysomus [1] (also narrow-headed golden mole or South African golden mole) is a genus of the golden mole family, Chrysochloridae, [2] comprising five species of the small, insect-eating, burrowing mammals endemic to Southern Africa. All five species can be found in South Africa and some are also found in Eswatini and Lesotho. [3]
The De Winton's golden mole -- a small, blind burrower with “super-hearing powers” that eats insects -- was found to be still alive on a beach in Port Nolloth on the west coast of South Africa ...
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Scientists are making a mountain out of a mole hill after finding a rare breed of sightless burrowing mammal not seen for the better part of a century. Endangered blind sand mole rediscovered in ...
De Winton's golden mole (Cryptochloris wintoni) is a species of mammal in the family Chrysochloridae. It is endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, and sandy shores. It is threatened by habitat destruction and is "critically endangered".
A blind mole that glides through sand has been spotted in South Africa, 87 years after wildlife experts feared it had gone extinct.