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  • Garden Mole: End of Life

    One of the moles aerating the ground around here ran out of steam beside the garden:

    Mole - dorsal
    Mole – dorsal

    It has wonderfully soft velvety fur!

    Flipping it over:

    Mole - ventral
    Mole – ventral

    A closeup of its digging paws and gnawing teeth:

    Mole - ventral paws - teeth
    Mole – ventral paws – teeth

    Those choppers seem overqualified for a diet of earthworms, but I suppose they know what they’re doing.

    We left it in as-found condition, ready for recycling …

    [Update: The consensus seems to be it’s a vole or shrew, not a mole. It’d be the biggest vole I’ve ever seen and “large shrew” seems oxymoronic, but the teeth are diagnostic. ]