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Eating royal poop improves parenting in naked mole-rats

  • Written by Gina Mantica, Ph.D. Candidate in Biology, Tufts University
Hormone signals help ready worker mole-rats to treat pups as their own.belizar/Shutterstock.com

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 offspring that are not genetically related.

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