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Short-beaked Echidna
The rigid snout probes soil and rotting wood for insects. Near its tip are receptors that respond to weak electrical fields. Researchers have demonstrated that sensitivity in the lab. How much the animal relies on it during a typical meal in the wild is less clear.
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Black and Rufous Sengi
The long tip can wiggle through fallen leaves while the sengi looks for ants, beetles, and other small prey. Its tongue does the scooping. That division of labor gives this little mammal a different use for an elephantlike nose.
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White-nosed Coati
The pale markings draw attention to the part that stays busiest when a coati is looking for food. It aims the flexible end of its snout down into leaf litter and uses smell to locate invertebrates among the leaves.
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Common Warthog
A warthog can drop onto its front knees and use the broad, muscular snout to dig up food it smells underground. If there’s more to find, it can keep moving forward on its knees with its nose close to the soil.
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Mandrill
The blue ridges on a male’s muzzle frame a red stripe down the nose. The strength of the red can vary with social rank. When two males face each other, there’s information in that color as well as in their posture.
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Eastern Tube-nosed Bat
Two little tubes stick up from this fruit bat’s blunt muzzle. The bat finds fruit using sight and smell. Researchers have proposed that spacing the nasal openings could help it tell where an odor is coming from, though the exact advantage of the tubes is still uncertain.
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Common Vampire Bat
Tiny pits around the nose pick up infrared radiation. They help the bat find a warm spot on an animal’s body before it feeds. It’s a kind of sensing that works in darkness and tells the bat something different from what it can smell.
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