Shaness Abowarthana
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Naked mole rats are small rodents with almost no hair from East Africa, where they live underground.
Their colonies are matriarchal, with a single queen and a few dozen others who take on roles like guarding, food gathering, and caretaking.
Getting a new queen is usually bloody business.
Female rats do get out, dealing fatal bites with their big front teeth.
So researchers at San Diego's Salk Institute for Biological Studies were surprised when their colony changed queens peacefully.
Shaness Abowarthana is a veterinarian and postdoctoral fellow at Salk, and she calls it the Amigos colony.
The amicable transition, where the old and new queens live side by side, is documented in the journal Science Advances.
Ping Huang, NPR News.
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