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Breeders are less active foragers than non-breeders in wild Damaraland mole-rats.
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- Ultradian rhythms of activity in a wild subterranean rodent.Biology letters · 2024Article
- The best of both worlds: no apparent trade-off between immunity and reproduction in two group-living African mole-rat species.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Damaraland mole-rats do not rely on helpers for reproduction or survival.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- Laterality in the Damaraland Mole-Rat: Insights from a Eusocial Mammal.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Tissue Oxidative Ecology along an Aridity Gradient in a Mammalian Subterranean Species.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Longevity of a solitary mole-rat species and its implications for the assumed link between sociality and longevity in African mole-rats (Bathyergidae).Biology letters · 2022Article
- Spatial population genetic structure and colony dynamics in Damaraland mole-rats (Fukomys damarensis) from the southern Kalahari.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Breeders are less active foragers than non-breeders in wild Damaraland mole-rats.Biology letters · 2020Article
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Abstract
Eusocial societies are characterized by a clear division of labour between non-breeding workers and breeding queens, and queens often do not contribute to foraging, defence and other maintenance tasks. It has been suggested that the structure and organization of social mole-rat groups resembles that of eusocial insect societies. However, the division of labour has rarely been investigated in wild mole-rats, and it is unknown whether breeders show decreased foraging activity compared with non-breeding helpers in natural groups. Here, we show that, in wild Damaraland mole-rats
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