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The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat (Paperback)
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The Biology of the Naked Mole-Rat (Paperback)
Series: Monographs in Behavior and Ecology
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This volume brings together more than a decade of information
collected in the field and lab on the naked mole-rat
(Heterocephalus glaber), a northeast African mammal unique for its
physical characteristics and eusociality. Nearly blind and
virtually hairless, naked mole-rats inhabit large subterranean
colonies in which only one female and her one to three mates
conceive offspring, while the young from previous litters maintain
and defend the group as do workers in colonies of the social
insects. In this first major treatise on naked mole-rats an
international group of researchers covers such topics as the
evolution of eusociality, phylogeny and systematics of the rodent
family Bathyergidae, population and behavioral ecology and genetics
of naked mole-rats in the field, vocal and nonvocal behaviors,
social organization and divisions of labor within colonies, and
climatic, social, and physiological factors affecting growth,
reproduction, and reproductive suppression. In addition to the
editors, the contributors are D. H. Abbott, M. W. Allard, N. C.
Bennett, R. A. Brett, S. H. Braude, B. Crespi, S. V. Edwards, C. G.
Faulkes, L. M. George, R. L. Honeycutt, E. A. Lacey, C. E. Liddell,
E. McDaid, K. Nelson, K. M. Noonan, J. O'Riain, J. W. Pepper, H. K.
Reeve, and D. A. Schlitter. Originally published in 1991. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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