{"id":956,"date":"2005-09-01T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T02:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:43","slug":"956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"holy moley!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The marsh-dwelling star-nosed mole likes fast food &#8212; <em>really<\/em> fast food. Researchers from<a href=\"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mole.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-957\" title=\"mole\" src=\"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/mole.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> Tennessee&#8217;s Vanderbilt University have  recently discovered that the nearly blind, burrowing creature can eat  faster than any other mammal on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Using a high-speed video camera, biologists Kenneth Catania and Fiona  Remple filmed star-nosed moles foraging for food in a glass-bottomed  artificial tunnel. They found that moles could detect and swallow their  tiny prey in about a quarter of a second, faster than the human eye can  follow. The mole&#8217;s amazing speed is due to the 22 odd-looking appendages  that circle its nose in a star, giving the animal its name. It doesn&#8217;t  use the appendages to smell, but instead to search and probe its dark,  underground environment efficiently and quickly.<\/p>\n<p>These supersensitive touch organs can investigate a remarkable 13  targets per second. &#8220;Most predators take times ranging from minutes to  seconds to handle their prey,&#8221; stated Catania in a press release. &#8220;The  only things I&#8217;ve found that come even close are some species of fish.&#8221; Catania, of course, has yet to see my pooch inhale a hot dog.<\/p>\n<p>You can see footage of a star-nosed mole foraging at www.exploration.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/news_mole.htm<\/p>\n<h6><em>This article appeared in the September 2005 issue of the children&#8217;s science magazine <\/em>Muse.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marsh-dwelling star-nosed mole likes fast food &#8212; really fast food. Researchers from Tennessee&#8217;s Vanderbilt University have recently discovered that the nearly blind, burrowing creature can eat faster than any other mammal on earth. Using a high-speed video camera, biologists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-childrens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}