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Spalax golani (Golan Heights blind mole-rat)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Golan Heights blind mole-rat (Spalax golani) is a rodent species in the family Spalacidae. It has been found on the Golan Heights (with records from Mount Hermon, Quneitra and Eliad ). This species, along with Spalax judaei and, by a different mechanism, Heterocephalus glaber, appears to be immune to cancer.
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Attributes

Forages - Ground [1]  100 %

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0