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African Mole-Rats - Ecology and Eusociality (Paperback, Revised)
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African Mole-Rats - Ecology and Eusociality (Paperback, Revised)
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African mole-rats are a unique taxon of subterranean rodents that
range in sociality from solitary-dwelling species through 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 behavioural and reproductive division of labour. 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, first published in 2000, Nigel
Bennett and Chris Faulkes provide a synthesis of the knowledge of
bathyergid systematics, ecology, reproductive biology, behaviour
and genetics. With this, they explore the role of these factors in
the evolution of sociality in the Bathyergidae in the context of
both vertebrates and invertebrates. This will be an important new
resource for anyone interested in the evolution of sociality, and
in mole-rats in particular.
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