American+Shrew+Mole

**Phyla**: Chordata

**Class:** Mammalia

**Scientific Name**: //﻿Neurotrichus gibbsii//

**Location**: North east America



**Mass**: 0.28 to 0.51 oz **Length**: 3.94 to 5.12 in
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**Habitat**: prefer habitats where the digging is easy, and where there is leaf litter or vegetation to provide cover. Moist areas in shady ravines and along streambanks.

**Living Requirements** : They lack external ears and have small eyes, these are adaptations for burrowing. Their forepaws are slightly broad, for digging.

**Life Cycle**: if not falling into a clorinated pool they can live anyhwere from a year to ten.

**Male and Female Differences**: Just like in most mammals the female carries the younge and gives birth.

**Interesting Facts**: The Chehalis Indian word for mole literally means "hands turned backward". A mole will consume 45-50 lbs of worms and insects each year!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**Human Impact**: Humans eat the shrew mole. Like at my house we put a pool up andas they are digging through the ground they come to water, notknowing its chlorinated and fall in and die. :(

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