John MacLean is happy someone posted a video of the rats outside the Tim Hortons close to him on social media on Tuesday. If ...

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 ...

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.

They also gather the roots and bulbs for the colony to eat. Other rats tend to the queen. Most other types of mole rats live on their own or in small families. Though mole rats spend most of their ...

Rats are territorial, so Auerbach doesn't think it's likely more than one colony occupies a city lot. If each colony has 40 to 50 rats, a number he calls generous, that would mean approximately ...