The other furless mammal is The Naked Mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber, also known as the Sand Puppy. It is a blind and burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa, and is remarkable also for being the only mammal with a social structure identical to that of several species of ants.
Many control-enamoured members of our species (politicians, militarists, sociologists, social psychologists, philosophers and religious leaders - to name but a few) would like to organise us more "eusocially"
The other furless mammal
ReplyDeleteis The Naked Mole-rat
(Heterocephalus glaber,
also known as the Sand Puppy.
It is a blind and burrowing rodent
native to parts of East Africa,
and is remarkable also
for being the only mammal
with a social structure identical to that
of several species of ants.
Many control-enamoured
members of our species
(politicians, militarists, sociologists,
social psychologists, philosophers
and religious leaders - to name but a few)
would like to organise us
more "eusocially"
- and they are slowly
attaining their goal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole_rat