ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2019
The Naked Mole-Rat: An Unusual Organism with an Unexpected Latent Potential for Increased Intelligence?
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- Killing behaviors in rodents: from predation to infanticide.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- A zinc finger transcription factor enables social behaviors while controlling transposable elements and immune response in prefrontal cortex.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Naked mole-rat and Damaraland mole-rat exhibit lower respiration in mitochondria, cellular and organismal levels.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics · 2022Article
- Housing and Husbandry Alternatives for Naked Mole Rat Colonies Used in Research Settings.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
- Bacterial microbiome of faecal samples of naked mole-rat collected from the toilet chamber.BMC research notes · 2022Article
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Abstract
Naked mole-rats are eusocial, hairless mammals that are uniquely adapted to their harsh, low-oxygen subsurface habitat. Although their encephalization quotient, a controversial marker of intelligence, is low, they exhibit many features considered tell-tale signs of highly intelligent species on our planet including longevity, plasticity, social cohesion and interaction, rudimentary language, sustainable farming abilities, and maintaining sanitary conditions in their self-built complex housing structures. It is difficult to envision how naked mole-rats would reach even higher levels of intelligence in their natural sensory-challenged habitat, but such an evolutionary path cannot be excluded if they would expand their range onto the earth's surface.
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