The Chronicles of a Generalist Nerd

or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Geek

Favorite Animal of the Day: Grant’s Golden Mole (Eremitalpa granti) Just…just look at him. He’s friggin’ adorable.  A small species of golden mole, known for its fossorial lifestyle in the Namib desert, as well as its ability to “swim” through sand to hunt. Not a true mole (which belong to the family Talpidae in the order Soricomorpha), but living a very similar lifestyle, and thus having many similarities to true moles and marsupial moles of Australia, (due to convergent evolution) including blindness and large forelimbs.So friggin’ adorable. 

Favorite Animal of the Day: Grant’s Golden Mole (Eremitalpa granti)

Just…just look at him. He’s friggin’ adorable. 

A small species of golden mole, known for its fossorial lifestyle in the Namib desert, as well as its ability to “swim” through sand to hunt. Not a true mole (which belong to the family Talpidae in the order Soricomorpha), but living a very similar lifestyle, and thus having many similarities to true moles and marsupial moles of Australia, (due to convergent evolution) including blindness and large forelimbs.

So friggin’ adorable. 

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