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Golden Mole
Chrysochloris asiatica
Golden moles (family Chrysochloridae) are not moles at all - they are afrotherians, more closely related to elephants and tenrecs than to the true moles of Europe and North America, and their resemblance to those animals is one of the sharpest examples of convergent evolution am…
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- Despite their name, golden moles are not closely related to true moles and belong to their own unique mammalian order, Afrosoricida.
- Golden mole hair is the only known mammal fur that is structurally iridescent, and it appears to be a side effect of hairs built for slipping through sand. Grant's golden mole locates termite mounds by head-dipping to sense vibrations, then sand-swims straight to them across open dune with no tunnel at all. Two species were rediscovered by environmental DNA sampling of beach sand after decades without a confirmed sighting - De Winton's golden mole was found again in 2023 this way.
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