How Eating Poop Makes These Mole-Rats More Motherly
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New research suggests a colony’s queen stimulates babysitters by transferring a type of estrogen through her feces
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Naked Mole Rat: This Colony Rodent Shows a Bizarre Benefit to Poop-Eating
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Mole Poop: Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know - A-Z Animals
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Poo turns naked mole rats into better babysitters
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Responses to pup vocalizations in subordinate naked mole-rats are induced by estradiol ingested through coprophagy of queen's feces
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I'd compare my worldview to those of a *checks notes* naked mole rat : r/insanepeoplefacebook
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Rats can swim up a toilet, salamanders eat their siblings & 6 more gross facts from The Nature of Things
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Eating poop makes naked mole rats more motherly, Science
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Responses to pup vocalizations in subordinate naked mole-rats are induced by estradiol ingested through coprophagy of queen's feces
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Searching for Bright Light: Why God Made Naked Mole Rats
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If you can milk a cow, you can milk a mole-rat, Reproduction
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Naked Mole Rats Might Love Their Queen's Pups Because They've Eaten Her Poop
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Mole Rat Gang? Or Molerat Gang? : r/fo4
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Naked-Mole-Rat Queens Control Their Subjects by Having Them Eat Poop
Rat vs Mouse: Pictures - Size, Poop, Behavior -How to tell difference between Rats and Mice vs Rats — Rapid Rodent Removal