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sk@forums.utsukta.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not OP, I couldn’t find a paper. Just this site that makes the same claim almost word for word, and cites a youtube video of a lecture at Stanford. I didn’t watch the video, but this seems best described as a “plausible” explanation rather than a proven fact.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    www.science.org/…/mole-rat-caste-lives-good-life

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    • sk@forums.utsukta.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      found the paper
      https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=Qpc4puUAAAAJ&citation_for_view=Qpc4puUAAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C

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      • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Next life goals: request to be fat naked mole rat at the pearly gates.

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This says there are fat naked mole rats, but it says their role is to connect to other naked mole rats communities by digging when the ground is soft from rain. That’s quite different from the claim that their role is to block the tunnels to stop them flooding.

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    • Nooodel@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Isn’t give the passage that states anything about blocking passages from rain though…

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  • sorter_plainview@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shit! That video is Robert Sapolsky’s lecture. I have something like an “intellectual” crush on him. He has done pioneering works in behavioural science, and at the intersection of human physiology and psychology. One of his books “Why Zebra’s Don’t Get Ulcers” is entirely on the various effects of psychological stress on the human body.

    He observed the same group of baboons for 25 years to understand their behaviour. Each year he used to spend 4 months with this group and observe them for more than 8 hours a day. “A Primate’s Memoir” is another book on this. Recently he wrote “Behave”, on the deterministic nature of human behaviour, tracing “aggression” back to the evolutionary reasons.

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  • sk@forums.utsukta.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    more like layman meme than science meme :P

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  story.fund/post/102912780522/naked-mole-rats Link to lecture at the bottom.

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