#scapanus

Townsend's mole is endangered in Canada. It has a small range that is restricted to the highly populated and developed Lower Mainland.

Townsend’s Moles have poor eyesight, but vision is of little use for locating prey in the underground darkness of their tunnels. Instead they rely on a highly developed sense of touch, particularly the thousands of touch-sensitive structures on their snouts known as Eimer’s organs. Their long jaws are designed for rapid biting and are armed with 44 teeth for cracking hard exoskeletons. When a mole captures an earthworm it will skillfully and speedily orient it using its teeth, nose and forefeet, so that the head-end is consumed first. The mole then threads the worm between its forefeet, tearing it into pieces with quick, jerky movements of the head and swallowing each morsel immediately. This method of eating facilitates the “stripping out” of gritty organic material found in the worm’s digestive tract and prevents the worm’s angled, bristle-like setae from interfering with swallowing.

one of my bat posts got flagged and i don't know why, it's not like it had female-presenting nipples in it

laurasiatheria -> eulipotyphyla -> talpidae -> scapanus latimanus (broad-footed mole)