Naked mole-rats are among the most vocal of rodents. Felix Petermann, MDC February 8, 2021 Naked mole-rats: bizarre rodents speak in dialects unique to their colony Matthew James Mason, University of Cambridge A new study found naked mole-rats communicate with chirps unique to their colony.
Smithsonian's National Zoo/flickr June 17, 2019 Meet the naked mole-rat: impervious to pain and cancer, and lives ten times longer than it should Ewan St. John Smith, University of Cambridge It may look like a whiskered cocktail sausage, but the naked mole rat’s incredible biology may one day improve countless lives.
Hormone signals help ready worker mole-rats to treat pups as their own. belizar/Shutterstock.com October 15, 2018 Eating royal poop improves parenting in naked mole-rats Gina Mantica, Tufts University Worker naked mole-rats take care of their colony’s young even though they aren’t the pups’ actual parents. New research suggests the queen gets them ready via hormones in her poop.