| 31. | However, some species have much larger litters, averaging twelve young in the naked mole rat, and sometimes much larger.
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| 32. | Speciation from assortative mating has occurred in the Middle East blind mole rat, cicadas, and the European corn borer.
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| 33. | While Kim and Erik attend prom together, Ron decides to take Rufus, his naked mole rat, to Bueno Nacho.
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| 34. | The mole rats occasionally travel above ground to forage for surface vegetation, and to disperse to found new burrow systems.
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| 35. | But why not have more mammaries anyway so that even mole rat young need not ever wait for their milk?
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| 36. | Perhaps the most extreme examples of colonial behavior in rodents are the eusocial naked mole rat and Damaraland mole rat.
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| 37. | For a naked mole rat, the sole focus of existence is the colony; individual life outside the colony is meaningless.
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| 38. | Perhaps the most extreme examples of colonial behavior in rodents are the eusocial naked mole rat and Damaraland mole rat.
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| 39. | Only the queen mole rat and her small harem of select males procreate, producing litters of pups every 80 days.
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| 40. | Over time there was a reduction in mole rat sizes in the collections, likely because of weather and environmental changes.
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