fossorial mammal

Types:

naked mole rat

fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites

Damaraland mole rat

colonial mole rat of western Africa; similar to naked mole rat

queen, queen mole rat

an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

Type of:

mammal, mammalian

any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk