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  Why Industrious Mole Rats Put Up With Lazy Ones
  ...south African researchers say there is a caste of lazybones, referred to, charitably, as "infrequent workers." These slothful mole rats can make up as much as 40 percent of a colony yet do only about 5 percent of the work...So although the mole rats sit around most of the time, draining the colony of resources, they are actually building up their reserves for those brief periods when they act as dispersers. "The colony puts up with them," Dr. Scantlebury said, "because they offer the chance of spreading the genes and creating future colonies."

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