When a worm pushes through her subway ceiling, she quickly sniffs it out using a long pink snout that can actually smell in stereo – each nostril acts independently, allowing her brain to accurately compute the direction of dinner in the pitch black. Her quarry, once caught, isn’t killed immediately; instead, the mole paralyses it with her venomous saliva so it can be stored alive in a specially constructed larder without turning to rot. As many as four hundred and seventy wrigglers have been recorded in one lucky mole’s pantry, which is helpful as she needs to consume over half her body
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