African Mole-Rats
Ecology and Eusociality
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 which to study the evolution and maintenance of highly social cooperative breeding strategies. In this book, Nigel Bennett and Chris Faulkes provide a synthesis of the current knowledge of bathyergid system…
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Weitere Autoren: Faulkes, Chris G.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-01865-4
- EAN: 9780521018654
- Produktnummer: 19363725
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.5 cm 442 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 442
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