Invading mole rats found to kidnap pups from conquered colonies

A trio of researchers with Washington University St. Louis, the Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission and San Francisco State University has found that invading mole rats at times kidnap pups from the colonies they conquer. In their paper published in the Journal of Zoology, Stan Braude, Jon Hess and C. Ingram describe their decade-long study of mole rats in Kenya’s Meru National Park and what they learned about their efforts to expand colony size.


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