African Mole-Rats
Bennett, Nigel C. / Faulkes, Chris G.![African Mole-Rats](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/141/1417240/CHSBZCOP031417240.jpg)
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 w...