Mole-rats are burrowing rodents with severe deterioration of visual capacity, par ticularly in image formation.
A high water table in grassland sites eliminates the possibility of burrowing deep to escape hostile surface conditions.
This probably relates to the wombat's proclivity for burrowing.
Burrowing robots - these will aid the hunt for water, a key requirement for life, a driver of climate and a vital resource.
This was done to protect the plots from burrowing mammals.
However, a small foot will by no means make burrowing easier for the cockles.
These legacies are both products of the same initial cause: the genes for burrowing.
The only monitoring study on a burrowing species since cats were eradicated has been for white-chinned petrels.
