A naked mole rat: like termites, they have one almost endlessly pregnant queen
by Helen Sullivan from Environment | The Guardian on (#6PR5A)
Each piece of information about this xenophobic rodent is worse than the last, but you cannot stop reading
To read about the naked mole rat is to come across information that you wish you never knew - and then to look for more.
The first thing to know about this tunnelling creature is that some people call them sand puppies. The next is that they are eusocial" mammals. What could that mean, you wonder, and you look it up: as it is with termites, so it is with naked mole rats.
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