… Šumbera et al. (2012) uncovered two burrow systems of the giant mole-rat Fukomys mechowii
with … thanks Kai R. Caspar for his help with sourcing literature from the 19th century and …

Subterranean mammals spend their lives in dark, unventilated environments that are rich in
carbon dioxide and ammonia and low in oxygen. Many of these animals are also long-lived …

The tribe Praomyini is a diversified group including 64 species and eight extant rodent genera.
They live in a broad spectrum of habitats across whole sub-Saharan Africa. Members of …

… “chimneys”) ending a few centimetres below the surface, frequently just under the turf, as
found in some burrow systems of Heliophobius in several localities (Burda, Chitaukali, Šumbera…

… reconstructions returned all models within two likelihood units of the best model, which we
summarized for each daughter branch and plotted in the form of pie-charts along the tree in R […

… Because simpler models are not available in RAxML, the GTR+G model (option -m … We
performed analyses in RAxML and MrBayes using the partitioned datasets (see Table …

… Šumbera unpubl. data) or tunnels opened during burrow excavation (Holtze et al., 2018) …
Wiedenová and R. Šumbera unpubl. data) of the value predicted for rodents of similar body …

. We provide an annotated checklist of rodents of Ethiopia. For each species we show a
distributional map based on critically revised data from: (1) published literature; (2) museum …

The Ethiopian highlands are the most extensive complex of mountainous habitats in Africa.
The presence of the Great Rift Valley (GRV) and the striking elevational ecological gradients …

Searching for food by extensive digging is one of the most important aspects of life of
subterranean rodents. We studied the effect of extrinsic (substrate quality) and intrinsic factors (sex …