A naked mole rat: the world's only 'eusocial' mammal has an endlessly pregnant queen | Helen Sullivan

Each piece of information about this xenophobic rodent is worse than the last, but you cannot stop readingGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTo read about the naked mole rat is to come across information that you wish you never knew - and then to look for more.The first thing to know about this tunnelling creature is that some people call them sand puppies. The next is that they are the world's only "eusocial" mammal. What could that mean, you wonder, and you look it up: as it is with termites, so it is with naked mole rats. Continue reading...