Fossorial
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A fossorial animal is one that is adapted to digging and which lives primarily underground. Examples of fossorial vertebrates are moles, badgers, naked mole-rats, meerkats, armadillos, wombats, and mo
Cape ground squirrel
European mole; note the strong and short forelimbs
Fossorial front leg of mole cricket, showing auditory and fossorial adaptations
Mole cricket
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Mole crickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera. Mole crickets are cylindrical-bodied, fossorial insects about 3–5 cm long as adults, with small eyes and shovel-
Fossorial
…of fossorial lifestyle. However the mole lizard Bipes, unlike other amphisbaenians, retains robust digging forelimbs comparable to those of moles and mole crickets. Many fossorial and sub-fossorial mammals that live in temperate zones with partially frozen grounds tend to hibernate due to the seasonal lack of soft…
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Pygmy mole crickets are members of the suborder Caelifera.
The parasitoidal wasp Larra bicolor was introduced to Florida to help control Neoscapteriscus mole crickets there.