Saturday, October 15, 2011

Animals That are Born Blind

1. Star Nosed Mole

Star nosed Mole is a real animal (not known to many people). Habitat ranges from Canada to Georgia. People rarely see because they live in swamps and wetlands. He is almost blind and animals that use the flesh to feel the shape of a star on his nose.




2. Cave Fish

Cave Fish can only be found in the cave that has a flow to it. They do not have functional eyes and pigmentation. They have a sensor forming papillae rows on their skin, which they use to help them navigate a dark environment. The majority of cave fish have little or no pigment in their skin.

3. Blind Snakes

This snake resembles the long earthworms. They live in burrows underground, and menggunakkan not anything to see, most of the rest of the eye they can not be used.

The picture below is the western blind snake. Skin color pink, purple, brown or silver-colored, shiny, brown, cylindrical, and blunt at both ends, and has a light-detecting black eyespots.

4. Texas Blind Salamander

Texas blind salamander, lives in a cave can reach an adult length of about 13 centimeters. His eyes were small and hidden under the skin. Salamanders spend their entire lives in darkness.



5. Blind Spider
Of the 850 new species, were found during a survey in Australia in underground habitats, spiders are blind, was "totally unexpected things that are found in unexpected places," by team members Steve Cooper, from the South Australian Museum , in October 2009.



For example, a scientist found an arachnid in Western Australia's dry pastureland that has been estimated that only exist in the rainforest - "the first time in a group of species ever found in Australia," said Cooper.

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