Their soft, silky fur is a beautiful silvery bluish grey color on their backs, and their underbelly is white. Food Habits Dalgytes mostly eat insects and insect larvae, which they dig out of the soil. Behavior Dalgytes are solitary, with a male and female coming together only to breed, and offspring leaving their mother's burrow upon maturation. These are nocturnal, terrestrial animals, with the interesting distinction of being the only members of their family to dig and live in burrows in the ground. Each burrow spirals down from a single entrance 1 or 2 meters into the ground.
Individuals often dig and use several burrows on their home range.
Dalgytes sleep in their burrows squatting rather than laying down. They can be found in woodland, savannah, shrub grassland, and even sparsely vegetated desert. References Ride, W.D.L. 1970. Nowak, R.M., and J.L. Paradiso. Wilson, D.E. and D.M. Reeder, eds.