A trio of researchers with Washington University St. Louis, the Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission and San Francisco State University has found that invading mole rats at times kidnap pups ...

A study explores links between coprophagy and parenting in naked mole-rats. Naked mole-rats live in hierarchical, eusocial colonies in which nonbreeding subordinates perform parental duties, including ...

After months of anticipation, the naked mole-rat colony at the Small Mammal House at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo finally has a queen—the only breeding female in a colony. A female gave birth to ...

The post Why Only One Naked Mole-Rat in a Colony Gets to Reproduce appeared first on A-Z Animals. When you think of a eusocial colony, insects probably come to mind, such as bees, termites, or ants.

The Smithsonian National Zoo's naked mole rat colony is welcoming seven new pups after their queen gave birth to her second litter, the zoo announced on Sunday. Naked mole rats are eusocial mammals, ...

The Tulsa Zoo is welcoming five naked mole rat pups to the Desert building. The pups were born March 4, 2018. The Zoo says the pups are “thriving in the naked mole rat group, called a colony.” A ...

Virtual visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s website will soon be able to watch naked mole-rats on two live webcams broadcasting the activities of the small, blind, subterranean-dwelling ...

A naked mole rat queen relies on her colony to help raise her pups, and she may manipulate their parenting instincts through hormones hidden in her faeces – exploiting the fact that colony members ...

This story has been updated. During the government shutdown, much remained the same among the millions of inanimate objects in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. But living creatures were ...

When you think of a eusocial colony, insects probably come to mind, such as bees, termites, or ants. However, two species of mammals live in highly organized social colonies with one queen and many ...