NOUN
- fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites
How To Use naked mole rat In A Sentence
- The naked mole rat goes by many names, including the potentially misleading "sand puppy" which might imply that these voracious diggers are cute and friendly fellows.
- When it comes to vertebrate backboned creatures other than humans, only one—the naked mole rat—has achieved the same grade of social organization. SuperCooperators
- The timescale is a fudge (evolution's probably not that quick), and you have to be willing to take the mental leap to accepting this type of speciation in humans (it helps to know that eusociality is possible in mammalian species--Baxter's example is naked mole rats); but once you swallow those lumps, he does get most of the details right. Archive 2004-11-01
- He points out that all of the branches or groups technically called clades known to have primitively eusocial species—aculeate wasps, halictine and xylocopine bees, sponge-nesting shrimp, termopsid termites, colonial aphids and thrips, ambrosia beetles, and naked mole rats—rely on colonies that build and occupy defensible nests. SuperCooperators
- The naked mole rat goes by many names, including the potentially misleading "sand puppy" which might imply that these voracious diggers are cute and friendly fellows.
- These two ideas have been remarkably powerful in explaining animal behaviour, particularly that of the social insects (and their creepy mammalian mimics, the naked mole rats).