View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Each colony of naked mole rats speaks its own unique dialect of chirps, a social feature that appears to be mediated by the colony’s queen and ...

Certain smells are incredibly repulsive to these pests, particularly some types of plants and herbs, which can be quickly grown or placed near suspected rat colonies. Mint, chamomile, tansy ...

When studying them in the wild, researchers painstakingly locate mole-rat colonies by doing vast transects of the landscape to spot the red-sand mounds that the mole-rats dig up when creating ...

Several dozen rats live together in colonies led by one dominant rat—the queen. As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young. Worker animals dig ...

and peat bogs of the uplands from May 2024 and have so far found 20 new water vole colonies. Also known as the water rat, the semi-aquatic rodents were once a common sight in Wales, but have ...

"Rats are territorial and live in hierarchical societies, thus migrants may not be accepted into established colonies which would limit (but not preclude) mating opportunities, and may also limit ...

We kept the males in pairs in shoebox cages in a colony room maintained at approximately 22±4 °C on a reverse 12:12-h light/dark cycle with free access to commercial laboratory rat chow and water.