Talk:Blind mole rat

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Relate to the sentence: "Unlike many other fossorial rodents, Blind mole rats do not have enlarged front limbs and do not appear to use their forearms as a primary digging tool".

There is no fossorial rodents (e.g. mole rats) with enalrged front limbs! Only moles (which are NOT rodent) have enlarged front limbs used for digging.

Certainly not as large as moles, but the front limbs of pocket gophers, zokors, and tuco-tucos have enlarged claws and powerful forelimbs used for digging. I suppose it is really the claws that are large and the limbs powerful though often short, so the term "enlarged forelimb" may be inaccurate. --Aranae 03:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank for correcting the mistake. If you check the Hebrew version of the Mole-rat ("CHOLD") in Wikipedia you will find much more information that is very useful on mole-rat (specially on the blind mole rat). It could be excellent if one can add that important information also to the English version (even transalate all the Hebrew page to English).

Thanks Tali Kimchi