Naked mole rat
Heterocephalus glaber / Naked mole rat
- Habitat
- Semi-deserts and dry grasslands
- Continent
- Africa
- Food
- Tubers, roots and other underground plant parts
- Gestation/breeding period
- 70 days
- Mode of life
- Highly social family groups with mostly 75, but up to 300 animals
- Class
- Mammals
- Order
- Rodentia
Key facts
~ 10 cm
size
30 - 50 g
weight
~ 20 years
age
How endangered are Naked mole rats?
by IUCN (Red List of Threatened Species)
- Not evaluated
- Data deficient
-
Least concern Least concern - Near threatened
- Vulnerable
- Endangered
- Critically endangered
- Extinct in the wild
- Extinct
Did you know?
The naked mole rat is probably immune to cancer and has a reduced sense of pain.
Naked mole rat on the zoo tour
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