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Exploring the complexities of cooperative breeding: insights from African wild dog packs
Journal of Zoology, Volume 328, Issue 1, Page 16-29, January 2026.Across 14 years of monitoring African wild dog packs in Savé Valley Conservancy, Zimbabwe, we found that younger and larger packs were significantly more likely to produce multiple litters, with second‐born pups showing higher survival. Pup survival also increased with pack size, rainfall, and alpha female age, highlighting the adaptive benefits of ...
R. J. Groom +5 more
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Altered composition of liver proteasome assemblies contributes to enhanced proteasome activity in the exceptionally long-lived naked mole-rat. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The longest-lived rodent, the naked mole-rat (Bathyergidae; Heterocephalus glaber), maintains robust health for at least 75% of its 32 year lifespan, suggesting that the decline in genomic integrity or protein homeostasis routinely observed during aging,
Karl A Rodriguez +4 more
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Reactions of Cryptomys Hottentotus to Water (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) [PDF]
Zoologica Africana, 1978 Mortalities did not result from the escape of mole-rats from flooded burrows; and under laboratory testing, Cryptomys hottentotus was not hesitant to enter water. Swimming motions were coordinated and effective, enabling animals to swim for up to 14 minutes.
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Seasonal changes in burrow geometry of the common mole rat (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) [PDF]
Naturwissenschaften, 2013 Sociality in mole rats has been suggested to have evolved as a response to the widely dispersed food resources and the limited burrowing opportunities that result from sporadic rainfall events. In the most arid regions, individual foraging efficiency is reduced, and energetic constraints increase.
Thomas, Hannah Grace +4 more
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The Anatomical Record, Volume 307, Issue 8, Page 2912-2932, August 2024.Abstract The fossorial water vole, Arvicola scherman, is an herbivorous rodent that causes significant agricultural damages. The application of cairomones and alarm pheromones emerges as a promising sustainable method to improve its integrated management. These chemical signals would induce stress responses that could interfere with the species regular
Sara Ruiz‐Rubio +4 more
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Journal of Anatomy, Volume 244, Issue 6, Page 900-928, June 2024.The digital dissection of the masticatory musculature of (a) Anomalurus, (b) Idiurus, (c) Zenkerella, and (d) Pedetes reveals a great degree of diversity in morphology. These taxa present a hystricomorphous condition of the skull that largely differs from those of other rodents with an enlarged foramen and reaffirms the significance of the descriptive ...
Léa Da Cunha +2 more
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Topographic barriers drive the pronounced genetic subdivision of a range‐limited fossorial rodent
Molecular Ecology, Volume 33, Issue 5, March 2024.Abstract Due to their limited dispersal ability, fossorial species with predominantly belowground activity usually show increased levels of population subdivision across relatively small spatial scales. This may be exacerbated in harsh mountain ecosystems, where landscape geomorphology limits species' dispersal ability and leads to small effective ...
Victoria M. Reuber +11 more
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, 1993 Family Bathyergidae Waterhouse, 1841. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 8:81. COMMENTS: Reviewed by Honeycutt et al. (1991). The family has been traditionally divided into two subfamilies: Bathyerginae with grooved upper incisors (Bathyergus); and Georychinae with ungrooved upper incisors (Cryptomys, Georychus, Heliophobius, Heterocephalis). Honeycutt et
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African Journal of Ecology, Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2024.Abstract DNA metabarcoding requires reference libraries that link DNA sequences to species. Mitochondrial gene regions cytochrome c oxidase I (COI), 12S ribosomal RNA (12S rRNA), 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA), cytochrome b (cyt b) and the hypervariable control region (D‐loop) are routinely used in studies that measure genetic diversity in animal species.
Vimbai I. Siziba, Sandi Willows‐Munro
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Adult neurogenesis and its anatomical context in the hippocampus of three mole-rat species
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2014 African mole-rats (family Bathyergidae) are small to medium sized, long-lived and strictly subterranean rodents that became valuable animal models as a result of their longevity and diversity in social organization.
Irmgard eAmrein +6 more
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