So the Zambian mole rats live in a moderately tough environment, but not as tough
as the naked mole rats.
The animals known
as naked mole rats may have turned them away for good.
Not exact matches
As mammals go,
naked mole rats are one of the strangest.
As we said about
naked mole rats in our gallery of weird lab animals, you've got to be tough and talented if you're this ugly.
A new paper claims that there may be no such thing
as a maximum life span for
naked mole rats.
Buffenstein and others have established that
naked mole rats will live
as long
as 30 years, staying perfectly healthy for most of that time.
Surprisingly, the probability a
naked mole rat will die does not go up
as it gets older.
Bodmer and Pagel point to the
naked mole rat as another example of a creature that may have taken this road to hairlessness.
The
naked mole rat version of TrkA failed to activate the ion channel
as efficiently
as the
rat version of TrkA, Lewin and his colleagues reveal today in Cell Reports.
Whether it's the discovery of the unique cancer - fighting gene of the
naked mole rat or the creation of a mouse model of melanoma, we see progress
as, well, progress.
The City of San Antonio Animal Care Services does not take in stray or owner surrender wildlife (such
as opossums,
naked mole rats, etc.).