Some animals have amazing noses, which they use to seek out food. They may smell their prey from a long way off, or use their sensitive noses to detect movements made by their prey.
The AADVARK lives in Africa in the area south of the Sahara Desert. It has a long snout, which it uses to sniff out its food (ants and termites) as it walks along at night. It may walk as far as 30 kilometers in one night, pressing its notes to the ground to pick up their scent. It also listens for any sound of movement made by the termites.
The STAR-NOSED MOLE of North America looks like an ordinary mole except for its nose. 22 fleshy tentacles stick out from the nose and wriggle constantly. They help the mole to feel movements in the ground made by its prey such as worms.
The PROBOSCIS MONKEY is named after a large, wobbly nose or ‘proboscis’ of the male monkey. It is thought that the large nose helps the male to attract a mate. It lives in the swampy mangrove forests of Borneo and wades through the water on its back legs. This makes it very unusual, as most monkeys move around using all four legs.
FOULD FACT! The nose of the male proboscis monkey can be up to 14 centimeters long. It makes the monkey’s warning calls louder.
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