Have you ever seen a picture of a mother dog caring for an unusual baby, like a kitten? This sort of animal adoption story is an example of a phenomenon known as alloparenting: care provided to ...

Dealing with poop is an unavoidable hazard of raising children, regardless of species. But for naked mole-rats, that wisdom is especially salient. During pregnancy, the scat of a naked mole-rat queen ...

Once you eat somebody’s poop, there’s an undeniable bond between the two of you. That’s especially the case if you’re a naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber), one of the strangest mammals in the ...

Naked mole rats are intensely social creatures, and poop is a central part of their social lives. For one, they like to roll around in the designated toilet chambers of their large underground ...