They can also survive low oxygen levels. (I can’t immediately see directly comparable numbers.) But the other weirdnesses either don’t seem to apply to them, or are unmentioned.
(Fun fact: autocomplete aptly gave me “the damaraland mole rat is also ridiculous”.)
Oh, huh - I thought the Damaraland mole-rats were basically sister species of the naked mole-rats, the two most closely-related species, and so didn’t consider them much. But it looks like that isn’t true—they’re not even the same genus. Maybe they evolved eusociality independently? Going to have to look into this, thanks!
Wikipedia says the damaraland mole rat (closely related, but in a different family) is also eusocial, and apparently it too spends its whole life underground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaraland_mole-rat
They can also survive low oxygen levels. (I can’t immediately see directly comparable numbers.) But the other weirdnesses either don’t seem to apply to them, or are unmentioned.
(Fun fact: autocomplete aptly gave me “the damaraland mole rat is also ridiculous”.)
Oh, huh - I thought the Damaraland mole-rats were basically sister species of the naked mole-rats, the two most closely-related species, and so didn’t consider them much. But it looks like that isn’t true—they’re not even the same genus. Maybe they evolved eusociality independently? Going to have to look into this, thanks!