Naked mole rat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber ), also known as the sand puppy , or desert mole rat is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa and the only species currently classified i...
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The queen's workers dig all day to bring her food so she can devote her time to reproduction and the care of her pups. It's a good thing she has help, because a naked mole-rat queen can have up to 27 pups at a time.
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Naked mole rats are rodents, but they live in communities like those of many insects. Several dozen rats live together in colonies led by one dominant rat—the queen. As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young.
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Educational resources on East African Mole Rat ; East African Mole Rat or Tachyoryctes splendens is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the East African Mole Rat ;
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The "dragging" mole-rat then returns to the front of the line, climbing over the others and moving backwards and the whole process repeats. ... Several of the larger females may fight, sometimes to the death, to become queen. Royal duty; Naked mole rats usually breed once a year in the wild. The queen mates with ... African Lion...
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In the wild, naked mole-rats live in large colonies underneath the African desert. ... Here at the zoo, this colony hadn’t successfully raised pups during the time when both queens were living, so maybe the role of queen was in flux. Recently, the original naked mole-rat queen passed away at age 18---living much longer than...
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Definition of queen mole rat in the AudioEnglish.net Dictionary. Meaning of queen mole rat. What does queen mole rat mean? Proper usage and pronunciation (in phonetic transcription) of the word queen mole rat. Information about queen mole rat in the AudioEnglish.net dictionary, synonyms and antonyms. ... QUEEN CONSORT;
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The Life and Times of the African Naked Mole-Rat ... Not only does the queen suppress reproductive function in the non-breeders, but she also apparently exerts some control over the breeding male(s), such that concentrations of testosterone in the latter are suppressed except around the time of oestrus and ovulation in...
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webspace.qmul.ac.uk/cgfaulkes/CGFNMR.htm
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Naked mole-rats could shed light on stress-related infertility in humans, the 23rd annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology will hear. ... The naked mole-rat lives in colonies of between 100-300 animals, but only the "queen" reproduces, ... "In a wider comparative study of African mole-rat species,
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070702145639.htm
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