Hearing in blind subterranean Zambian mole-rats (Cryptomys sp.): collective behavioural audiogram in a highly social rodent

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Ovarian growth and folliculogenesis in breeding and nonbreeding females of a social rodent, the Zambian common mole-rat, Cryptomys sp.

✍ Wolf-JÜrgen Willingstorfer; Hynek Burda; Jürgen Winckler 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 614 KB

Zambian common mole-rats are subterranean rodents that live in families with only one female breeding. Her offspring remain in the parental nest and do not reproduce. Behavioral experiments (Burda, '95) demonstrated that their apparent ''sterility'' is based on incest avoidance and individual recogn