Talk:Damaraland mole-rat

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Did you know... that a colony of Damaraland mole rats have been estimated to excavate as much as three tons of earth over a two week period?

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Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Animals, plants, and other organisms.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:20, 8 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Damaraland Mole Rat → Damaraland mole rat – -> sentence case mammal species common name as specified in WP:MOS. WolfmanSF (talk) 03:54, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The tunnels[edit]

The tunnels are 65 to 75 cm (26 to 30 in) in diameter? is that correct?--Alexandronikos (talk) 15:02, 12 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I corrected this obvious unit error. The correct diameters are given in Roper et al 2001 [1]; the incorrect value listed here is an error (likely a typo) originating in Bennett & Jarvis 2004 [2] Olawlor (talk) 07:53, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unit of basal metabolic rate[edit]

The basal metabolic rate of Damaraland mole rats is also unusually low for mammals of their size, at just 0.66 cm³/g/h.

Unit should be energy per body mass and time: J / g · h. (I am not able to read the source text.)

Probably meant cm³ O₂ / g · h. Corrected and commented. --Helium4 (talk) 05:35, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]