Very nice new study on the underrated subterranean mole voles - showing further evidence for a social system with substantial similarities to cooperatively breeding African mole-rats (which are not closely related at all).
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Subterranean rodents are key model systems for studying the ultimate and proximate causes of cooperative breeding and reproductive skew. The northern mole vole is a truly subterranean, highly social c...
