Instead of civil war, a naked mole rat colony changed queens peacefully

Naked mole rats live in colonies underground. Typically just one female reproduces at a time. When it

These matriarchal rodents often have bloody succession wars to replace their queen. But in a colony in California, Queen Tere ceded the throne to her daughter, Arwen, without violence.

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