| In insects with fossorial legs the fore legs and tibiae are specialized for digging. |
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| This may account in part for the paucity of crepuscular to nocturnal or cryptozoic to fossorial skink lineages in the interior. |
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| The only Australian fossorial mammal is the marsupial mole, Notoryctes typhlops. |
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| The means of intraspecific communication in the insectivorous fossorial mammals clearly needs to be examined in more detail and is not addressed further here. |
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| While the fossorial rodents are herbivores, typically feeding on roots and tubers, the talpid moles, golden moles and marsupial mole are largely insectivorous. |
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| These generalists were mainly unspecialized herbivores or omnivores, with partially fossorial habits, strong territoriality and high reproductive rates. |
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| There is considerable behavioral evidence to suggest that certain fossorial mammals do use the seismic channel to glean information about their surroundings. |
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| Rectilinear locomotion is used by the giant snakes and almost exclusively by fossorial vertebrates when burrowing. |
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| Talpa minuta, Talpa minor and Proscapanus assort with the fossorial taxa as expected. |
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| Although some fishes and birds dig or bore shallow burrows, they can hardly be considered truly fossorial, as are moles or earthworms. |
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| This pattern produces the very jerky and slow forward progression typical of most fossorial locomotion. |
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| These fossorial rodents bang their head against the walls of their tunnels. |
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| The most specialized fossorial mammals are subterranean, seeking food and shelter underground and rarely coming to the surface. |
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| Many fossorial mammals were classified under the, now obsolete, order Insectivora, such as shrews, hedgehogs and moles. |
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| A novel, simple, safe and effective trap for Burrowing Owls and other fossorial animals. |
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| Fossorial mammals have a fusiform body, thickest at the shoulders and tapering off at the tail and nose. |
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