The document poses 20 questions about naked mole-rats, including how long they live, why researchers are interested in them, how they differ from other animals in how they run, who has been studying them and how many they have monitored, how and where they live, their closest relative, where they are found, how they manage body temperature, what they feed on, how they make tunnels, their social organization and classes, how pain is presented in humans and why mole-rats don't feel pain, what would happen to humans if they lived like mole-rats, and what scientists expect to find that could help humans physically.

1. Answer the following questions:
1.- For how long do naked mole-rats usually live?
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2.- Why are researches interested in them?
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3.- How different do they run from other animals?
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4.- Who has been studying naked mole-rats for some time now?
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5.- How many mole-rats have they been monitoring?
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6.- How and where do these animals live?
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7.- What is their closest relative?
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8.- Where are these mole-rats found?
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9.- Where do they usually live?
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10.- Do they spend most of their lives in broad daylight? (a plena luz del día)
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2. 11.- How do these naked mole-rats manage their body temperature?
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12.- What do they feed on?
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13.- How do they make their tunnels?
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14.- What type of organization do they have?
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15.- What are the three social classes that exist in their colonies?
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16.- What is the function of each social class inside the colony?
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17.- How can you describe scientifically how pain is presented in humans?
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3. 18.- How can you describe scientifically why these naked mole-rats don’t feel pain?
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19.- What would happen to humans if we were living as the naked mole-rats do?
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20. – What would scientist at the end expect to find that will help humans physically?
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