After Bloodbath, The National Zoo Naked Mole-Rats Finally Choose Their Queen

DCist ^ | 12/17/2018 | Natalie Delgadillo

[Charles Martel]

One mole-rat was much larger than all the rest, and she was pushing and shoving her way to dominance without much obvious opposition from the others.

Sounds familiar. I believe there were a number of news articles about this back in 2016.

[knarf]

I can sleep now

[PGR88]

They have mole-rat wars to determine who’s going to be the queen or who’s going to breed with the queen.

Kind of like High School

[ßuddaßudd]

the queen’s nipples had grown significantly
are we allowed to read this type of talk in public?

[pepsi_junkie]

Queens sexually repress all the other females in the colony, as well as the males they don’t want to mate with, preventing them from going through puberty (even experts aren’t quite sure how queens do this).

I have an idea they can pursue to gain some insight: It's taken feminists 50 years but they've managed to get a generation of men that never went through puberty. They should study feminists and there collection of soy boys.

[lee martell]

Naked Mole-Rats!
Wow, that sounds dirty. Something you wouldn’t want touching you or anywhere in your presence.

On the other hand, it’s a good name for a Bar near a college campus.

[KarlInOhio]

Welcome to George R. R. Martin’s nature documentary.

[Celerity]

That’s a pretty crazy thing. Queens “subduing puberty”

I’ll give ya a hint : It likely bites the young male’s groin until it severs enough nerves and tubes to end the process. Like Muslims.

[Rockingham]

I have seen similar dire if bloodless struggles among the women in offices I worked in.

[Rockingham]

I have seen similar dire if bloodless struggles among the women in offices I worked in.

[dead]

Looking at the pictures, they definitely picked the hottest one.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Melvin, one of the mole rats who is not allowed near the queen, was heard to utter, “F*** the gynocracy! I’m out of here!:

[antidemoncrat]

Better looking than her though.

[piasa]

Sounds exactly like Democrats even down to sexually repressing the males and making them asexual or perhaps gay...

[bgill]

Please, no nekkid pics of Hellary or Nancy.

[piasa]

There was a papa mole, a momma mole, and a bunch of baby moles ... all trudging in a line through a tunnel.

Papa mole sticks his nose out of the tunnel and says, “I smell violets!”

Mama mole sticks her nose in the air over his shoulder and shouts, “I smell clover! What do you smell, children?”

And after that each baby mole took a whiff and announced what they detected in the air, until they heard a distant muffled shout from the youngest and last mole : “ALL I SMELL IS MOLASSES!”

[Rinnwald]

They're kinda cute little critters.

[pas]

I guess I have been living under a rock. First I heard of it and still do not care.

[Deplorable American1776]

Hillary is the Queen...she thinks she’s a queen, and she is a rat and a mole.

[Rebelbase]

“If you think living in the dark underground and fighting for your life is the way to go...”

Seems like that’s been the theme of more than one Hollywood movie.