and many animals here
choose the simplest option of all
staying hidden all day and only
venturing out
in the cool of the night
as darkness falls animals appear from
seemingly
nowhere
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and among them inevitably
are hunters
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one of the most voracious nocturnal
predators
is also one of the hardest to see
this mysterious creature hardly ever
appears on the surface of the tunes
but there are signs on the sand that can
give it away
it lives only here where the sand grains
are so perfectly dry and polished
that they flow almost like water
it’s no bigger than a ping pong ball
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a golden mole it’s totally blind
but there’s nothing to see underground
anyway
instead it has superb hearing
its entire head acts as an amplifier
that picks up vibrations through the
sand
so to locate prey on the surface of the
dune
it has paradoxically to thrust its face
into the dune
termites not easy to catch
when you’re blind
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far better to go into stealth mode
once below the sand it can detect the
slightest movement
allowing it to strike with pinpoint
accuracy
well most of the time
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they can travel two-thirds of a mile a
night in search of its dinner
and right now it has just detected its
main course
little wonder it’s sometimes called the
shark
of the dunes
