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African Mole-Rats: Ecology and Eusociality

African Mole-Rats: Ecology and Eusociality

Bennett, Nigel C.
Faulkes, Chris G.
Jarvis, Jennifer

Hardcover

Other AnimalsPets: GeneralZoology

ISBN10: 0521771994
ISBN13: 9780521771993
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 9 2000
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.27
Language: English
African mole-rats are a unique taxon of subterranean rodents that range in sociality from solitary-dwelling species to two eusocial species, the Damaraland mole-rat and the naked mole-rat. The naked mole-rat is arguably the closest that a mammal comes to behaving like social insects such as bees and termites, with large colonies and a behavioral and reproductive division of labor. As a family, the Bathyergidae represent a model system with which to study the evolution and maintenance of highly social cooperative breeding strategies. In this book, Nigel Bennett and Chris Faulkes provide a synthesis of the current knowledge of bathyergid systematics, ecology, reproductive biology, behavior, and genetics. They explore the role of these factors in the evolution of sociality in the Bathyergidae in the context of both vertebrates and invertebrates. This volume will be an important new resource for anyone interested in the evolution of sociality, specifically in mole-rats.

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