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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

Human's impact on the behavior and cultural diversity of chimpanzees

Safeguarding the earth's biodiversity has become an urgent priority in the current era of unprecedented environmental and ecosystem degradation. Scientists have been monitoring the loss of species, populations, and their genetic diversity. However, they gave comparatively little attention to the influence of human growth and... click to read more

Ammie K. Kalan | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology, Leipzig, Germany

conservation

animal culture

disturbance hypothesis

human footprint

Pan troglodytes

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Nov 12, 2019