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Some facts about the
Naked mole-rat
Adult weight : 0.035 kg (0.077 lbs)
Maximum longevity : 28 years
Female maturity :228 days
Gestation : 70 days
Weaning : 36 days
Litter size : 7
Litters per year : 4
Weight at birth : 0.002 kg (0.0044 lbs)
Weight at weaning : 0.011 kg (0.0242 lbs)
Body mass : 0.035 kg (0.077 lbs)
Temperature : 31.85 °C (89.33 °F)
Naked mole rat
Order : Rodentia
Suborder : Hystricognathi
Family : Bathyergidae
Species : Heterocephalus glaber
The Naked mole rat is listed as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the naked mole rat
A young / baby of a naked mole rat is called a 'kitten, nestling, pinkie or pup'. The females are called 'doe' and males 'buck'. A naked mole rat group is called a 'colony, horde, pack, plague or swarm'.Habitats
Arable Land, Artificial / Terrestrial, Caves, Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic), Dry savanna, Grassland, Savanna, Shrubland, Subtropical / Tropical Dry Grassland and Subtropical / Tropical Dry Shrubland
Facts about the naked mole rat
How Naked Mole Rats Are Like Insects (Full text)
The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a small, hairless rodent in the family bathyergidae. (Full text)
The naked mole rat is also unique among mammals as it is virtually cold-blooded; it cannot regulate its body temperature at all and requires an environment with a specific constant temperature in order to survive. (Full text)
Intestinal calcium transport in mole-rats (Cryptomys damarensis and Heterocephalus glaber) is independent of both genomic and non-genomic vitamin D mediation Exp Physiol 1995 80: 597-608. (Full text)
Despite the fact that they burrow underground like moles and have rat-like tails, naked mole-rats are in fact neither moles nor rats. (Full text)
The Naked Mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a species of small rodents found in East Africa, whose members-the only hairless rodents-live entirely in underground (Full text)
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A naked mole rat, Heterocephalus glaber, is a hystricomorphic small rodent that lives in subterranean permission granted by Smithsonian and Friends burrows of arid East African nations such Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia. (Full text)
Lyons The Naked Mole-Rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a small mammal in the order Rodentia and the family Bathyergidae. (Full text)
The naked mole rat is also unique among mammals as it is cold-blooded; it cannot regulate its body temperature at all and requires an environment with a specific constant temperature in order to survive. (Full text)
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1 Naked mole-rats are certainly animals of massive confusion! (Full text)
Anatomy: Naked Mole-Rats are about 3 inches (7 cm) long; they weigh 1 to 2. (Full text)
A naked mole rat is featured in the Disney cartoon Kim Possible. (Full text)
The naked mole rat is a rodent and can be viewed in a photo on most pest websites. (Full text)
Naked mole-rats are 7 to 8 cm long, with a 1 cm long tail. (Full text)
Although the naked mole rat is not by nature a nomadic species, the eyeball-squinching, Lovecraftian denouement of last week’s U. (Full text)
Here I provide evidence that queen aggression (shoving) in laboratory colonies of the eusocial mammal, the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), is a convergently evolved manifestation of queen−worker conflict over worker activity. (Full text)
The African Bathyergidae (Bennett and Faulkes 2000; Jarvis and Bennett 1991), the family that includes the most social of all known rodents, the eusocial naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), is one of the very few tropical families that has been studied extensively (Jarvis and Bennett 1991). (Full text)
Naked Mole Rat - The naked mole rat is native to parts of Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. (Full text)
The naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber, is an unusual (Full text)
The naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a yellowish-brown color, similar to that of the TLK creature (the other rodents mentioned above are darker-hued). (Full text)
1. Heterocephalus, genus Heterocephalus -- (sand rats)Heterocephalus
genus Heterocephalus
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