Shared Habitat (IMAGE)

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association

Shared Habitat

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Highveld mole-rats often share their burrow systems with a native ant species, the Natal droptail ant -- and cannot feel their sting.

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Dewald Kleynhans, University of Pretoria

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