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

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

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

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]