Juliana's golden mole

[4] The Juliana's golden mole is well adapted for burrowing, they have strong hardened noses and smooth rounded bodies along with large front claws best suited for digging through the ground and webbed feet that help push soil out of the way as it makes its way through the substrate.

[4] The Juliana's golden mole are solitary animals that live just under the soils surface,[5] along weathered rocky ridges of quartzite or granite.

[3] This type of mole has very specific requirements for its habitat and it tends to need areas that have good tree cover along with hard grainy/sandy soil that is well draining.

[6] Juliana's golden mole is very hard to locate since it spends most of its time underground and their tunnels are not easily visible apart from the few openings they create during the summer rainy seasons.

[5] Juliana's golden mole is found in Pretoria (Gauteng), Nylstroom (Limpopo Province) and Kruger National Park (Mpumalanga), South Africa.

The population on Bronberg Ridge, Pretoria East, is severely affected by ongoing intensive urbanization and a mining operation, and it is considered to be critically endangered.

[1] Conservation efforts of this species are limited and not well managed, this is mainly due to a lack of information on the Juliana's golden mole and their habitat regions.

The regions in which Juliana's golden mole has been located.