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Instead of civil war, naked mole rat colony peacefully replaced queens

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Naked mole rats live in underground colonies. Usually only one female breeds at a time. Sometimes fights break out when one queen retires and it's time for another to rule.

Naked mole rats live in underground colonies. Usually only one female breeds at a time. Sometimes fights break out when one queen retires and it’s time for another to rule. Evgeniya Moskova/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Evgeniya Moskova/iStockphoto/Getty Images When the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego acquired the first colony of … Read more