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Alison J. Barker

joined in Mar 1, 2022

Research Scientist at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.

Barker has 1 break published.

Notes from underground: naked mole-rats and vocal dialects

Naked mole-rats are highly unusual rodents. These long-lived, cold-blooded mammals are immune to certain types of pain, highly resistant to cancer and able to survive up to 18 minutes without oxygen. They have a highly cooperative social lifestyle, rare among mammals but common in insects... click to read more

Alison J. Barker | Research Scientist at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

animal culture

vocal communication

naked mole-rat

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Mar 1, 2022

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