Don’t worry, they don’t hunt humans.
... Star-nosed moles may not be giant mantis-looking creatures with super hearing, but they’re bizarre, underground-dwelling, hamster-sized creatures with giant claws for digging. But the piece de resistance is their cold, fleshy starburst of a nose that opens and closes into 22 pink tentacle-like feelers. Their nose helps them navigate the underground world primarily by touch, though it works as a pretty good sniffer too.
“This nose is probably the most sensitive touch organ on the planet, for sure for a vertebrate,” says Kevin Campbell, a professor of environmental and evolutionary physiology at the University of Manitoba. To give an idea of just how sensitive this feeling nose is, Campbell says that the star-nosed mole can distinguish three red blood cells in a row from four. Their wriggling face-hand senses things on the micron-level. “It's just unfathomably touch sensitive,” he says. READ MORE from Inverse
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