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Three compacting digging strokes performed by an Eastern Mole (Scalopus aquaticus) in loose substrate. Animation of scapula, humerus, ulna and manus generated using X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM). Video recorded at 90 frames per second.

How moles destroy your lawn: the forelimb kinematics of eastern moles in loose and compact substrates

Yi-Fen Lin, Nicolai Konow, and Elizabeth R. Dumont

Journal of Experimental Biology 2019. 222:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.182436