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Fossorial means the habit of living underground. The Badger, the naked mole rat, and a mole salamanders are known as fossorial organisms.
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∙ 9y agoA fossorial is an animal that digs and lives underground. Some examples are rats, squirrels, beavers, and badgers. Wasps and bees are also considered fossorial.
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What is fissorial adaptation?
A fossorial adaptation refers to a fossorial creature that has adapted to digging and burrowing for shelter. The badger and naked mole rat are fossorial.
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Groundhogs are fossorial what does that mean?
fossorial means adapted to digging , therefor the animal lives underground
Groundhogs are fossorial What does this mean?
They live underground
What are fossorial feet?
Fossorial feet are feet adapted for or used in burrowing or digging. Moles, for example, have fossorial forelimbs.
What is fissorial adaptation?
A fossorial adaptation refers to a fossorial creature that has adapted to digging and burrowing for shelter. The badger and naked mole rat are fossorial.
Tiny-eyed mammal with fossorial forefeet non-existent in Ireland?
MOLE
What has the author W E Shuckard written?
W. E. Shuckard has written: 'Essay on the indigenous fossorial Hymenoptera'
What lives under ground?
Moles, badgers, insects, rabbits, worms etc
When do scorpions eat?
Scorpions are nocturnal and fossorial, finding shelter during the day in the relative cool of underground holes or undersides of rocks and coming out at night to hunt and feed.
In animals the adaptation for underground life is called is it terrestrial or fossorial adaptation or aquatic adaptation or volant adaptation?
I don't know look it up in the science dictonary it has every thing in it fom comets to birds. you should try it. poop
What is a badgers niche?
Badgers are highly specialized fossorial mustelids that help control small mammal populations. Somewhat tolerant of human activities, however predator control using indiscriminate trapping and persistent poisons causes extensive losses.
What do fairy armadillos eat?
The pink fairy armadillo is classified as a fossorial generalist insectivore. The main source of its food consists of ants and larvae it finds underground. While those are its primary sources of food, the armadillos are known to eat worms, snails, and other insects.
Are the vertebrates that can live in water and on land for a short period of time are amphibians?
Amphibians are of the class Amphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arboreal or freshwater aquatic ecosystems. Amphibians typically start out as larvae living in water.
