The queen sets the tone: Deciphering the dialects of naked mole-rats

Mongabay
Feb 8, 2021, 3:57 am216 pts
The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), a hairless rodent that lives in the arid areas of eastern Africa, is one of the strangest-looking creatures in the animal kingdom. But what it lacks in looks, it makes up for in extraordinary biology. A team of researchers has discovered that these wrinkled rodents…

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