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MeatEater Conservation

Ep. 194: Foreign Affairs, Legislation, and Hog Troubles

MeatEater Conservation

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness, Education

4.99.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week Cal talks about naked mole rats, getting the Shafts-bury, and so much more.

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0:00.0

From mediators' world news headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review

0:08.1

presented by Steel.

0:10.3

Steel products are available only at Authorized Deals.

0:13.2

For more, go to StealDealers.com.

0:16.5

Now here's your host, Ryan Calcalehan.

0:22.4

Do naked mole rats hold the key to the fountain of youth?

0:26.6

It sounds incredible, but it just might be true.

0:31.0

Scientists working at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom are trying to figure

0:34.8

out why naked mole rats are the Mathusulas of mice.

0:39.5

Mathusula, for those of you who skipped Sunday's school, is the oldest person in the Bible.

0:45.0

He was taken to heaven at the ripe old age of 969, and naked mole rats aren't too far

0:51.4

off.

0:52.4

Their average rat might live one or two years naked mole rats can live as many as 30.

0:57.6

To put that in human perspective, if homo sapiens had a cousin with that kind of longevity,

1:03.6

they'd live to be about 450 in human years.

1:07.9

One University of Cambridge scientist told the BBC that he's never seen a mole rat die

1:12.7

of natural causes.

1:14.6

In captivity, they're more likely to die in a fight with another mole rat than of any kind

1:20.1

of disease in the wild, snakes are their biggest concern.

1:24.3

Their habitat in underground burrows helps them avoid cold and rain, but scientists say these

1:29.3

amazing little creatures don't exhibit signs of aging.

1:33.4

Even when naked mole rats get older, they don't appear to experience significant changes

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