Many of the small animals that live in the village, known only by the cartoons.We are talking about moles.Not many people have seen them in the environment.A Signs and considered frightening.So bright look their forelimbs.And, of course, not everyone can tell how deep a hole the mole.For the layman, this is an interesting topic often remains a "mystery."But in fact it is very informative.Not only biology, but also people of other professions studied this topic in detail, referring to practical application.Let us and we will not keep up.Suddenly useful!
What wormhole
Let's start with the fact that this animal is not very fond of white light on the look out (so to say about it).The fact that the mole blind effect lifestyle.Its habitat - the upper soil layers.There he feels quite comfortable and cozy.Before you ask, what is the depth of the mole hole, you need to know, and what he needs.After all, it depends on the definition of objectives such "structure".Nature does not like empty movements.Anyway, wormhole this principle proves.His work on "Underground Construction" animal pays almost all the time.It is debug it and improve.Wormhole is a system of corridors and rooms, each of which is created with its own purpose.Then there are passages and a latrine, and nest and warehouse.Of course, all terms should be quoted.However, the practical burden they carry very similar to the one that we put in the appropriate name.For example, a latrine used animals as a "dressing-room."And elsewhere in this natural need animal does not perform.
Why build a mole hole?
Let's just define what the animals with the same name set.We are still talking about all.Of course, they have their own characteristics.Only in this part of the article we will talk about some "average mole".Consider the features of the home.There he spends almost all his life.Note that the depth of the hole the mole is defined by the tasks for which it digs.Generally it consists of several floors.The first occurs at ten - twenty-five centimeters from the surface of the soil.This floor consists of a system of moves.They need little animal to search for food.After all, it just "hides" in this soil layer.Below is the mole falls for other purposes.The second (deep) it creates a floor in order to breed, keep their reserves.The well-known story is fairly well described.Nora mole as shown there is its warehouse, housing, hunting, harvesting and ... prom.
like a mole digging the ground
engineers, as well as biologists, it was interesting, and how the little animal manages to build such a complex structure.It should be noted that the depth of the mole burrows sometimes reaches four meters.For comparison, its dimensions are about twenty centimeters.You see the difference?Its structure can be compared to our high-rise buildings or mines.For the construction of an animal uses almost all the body parts.It is equipped with the nature of the powerful paws with claws.They also frightened bystanders of his rare appearances on the surface.These animal rakes soil layers.Only their own to do something with need.In order to remove the excess "building material", the animal makes molehills.This small outcrops, through which it pushes the ground.This is done in the head.When the corridor is too long, animal clogs the hole and used the new digs.A person sees a handful of earth on the surface - the results of the mole.Only the entrance was not found.Animal hides it quite tricky to not be at risk, and preserve offspring.
The mole eats
It is clear that with such a specific way of life animal must have a special diet.And they eat everything that occurs on the road.Basically this plant parts.Roots, tubers, acorns - all this is in their stomachs (and not only).Researchers say this interesting animal that stocks it can impress.For example, the mole rat takes a few pantries, which can detect up to twenty kilograms of eatables.You agree diligence animal to be envied.In addition, this factor explains how deep the mole digs.Stocks something done for the winter.Consequently, they do not have "the abyss", in particular, from the cold.So, in those areas where frosts more animal hides deep and vice versa.
Mole and garden
People involved in agriculture, often complain about the animals.The fact that mole rats often settle near the sites processed by man.Considering how much he can "steal" from the garden, some are beginning to worry.It should be noted that the negative attitude to the moles are not well founded.Well, let a few potatoes or carrots eaten.At the same time they are also more variety to your diet larvae and other parasites that much more can spoil the crop.To such conclusion experts figure out how to dig a hole the mole.That is the very first floor is for feeding.Where an animal it would pave, parasites remains.He catches them all and eats.It turns out that the underground hunter is very useful gardeners, though, for his "service" has to share the harvest.But, by the way, is still considered pests moles.They are trying to get rid of.
length holes
People viewing figures achieved by this small builder, emphasize the depth of the structure.But there is a more interesting factor that can capture the imagination.Agree to burrow into the ground four meters in a straight line can be many.But ponastroit tunnels, the length of which is many times the size of yours, - it is a huge work.So, this figure can reach up to three hundred and sixty meters (in mole rat).And it is not clear whether it is a record.The fact that many of the moles are not thoroughly understood.About them known to science only general information.The length and depth of their burrows none was measured.These include, for example, a shrew.They are much smaller moles.Can you live invisibly "under the nose" (in the garden).By the way, shrews find useful.They loosen the soil and feed on pests.
Interesting facts about wormholes not only
We begin not with the house, and with the "appearance".Scientists have found that the animal has an unusual coat.Wool it grows straight.So it arranged so that it does not prevent him to change direction in narrow aisles.Hairs calmly stacked both forward and backward.However, due to constant friction, coat quickly deteriorates.A mole could be just bald.Nature is arranged so that it sheds up to four times a year.Predators very difficult to hunt underground inhabitants.It is known that they are able to run on their transitions at more than twenty-five kilometers per minute!Agree, it is very fast.Incidentally, the coat is a high-speed movement also affects negatively.Cellars mole builds on several floors.The researchers found the cave with both roots and with worms.They were stacked separately.The animal does not mix different types of food in the same room.
Science and moles
fiction lovers know that the animal was unusual Note physicists.Those in the study, the multidimensionality of our world have come to certain conclusions.It turns out that the nonlinear space.It can be phased out.A tie between a part of the transitions that resemble moles burrow.Photos of this phenomenon has not yet been able to do.Yes, and the evidence of its existence is difficult.While only some of the foremost visionaries yes to science, acting on the verge of a formal system, use the concept of "wormholes".And it came to mind was the researchers note secrecy lifestyle of the animal.It keeps its secrets from prying sometimes not very deep, and sometimes far away from the earth's surface.Try it, get it home!
