Endangered
Hanang Mole-rat
Fukomys hanangensis
Hanang Mole-rat is a rodent in the family Bathyergidae (order Rodentia) — Fukomys hanangensis, recorded as Endangered.
The rodent
The species has an average adult weight of 83 g.
Rodents have ever-growing incisors. Species here are wild forms with a threat category — chipmunks, mole-rats, deer mice.
This is a named wild mammal with a photograph and a threat category on the public record.
Range and habitat
The typical the Hanang slipak usually lives in the village of Jorodom (04°29.510′S. 035°24.519′E) on agricultural land on the slopes of Mount Hanang.
GBIF currently lists 26 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Like other representatives of the genus, it leads a completely subterranean lifestyle and is a social cooperative breeder, where the young show natal philopatry and reproduction is limited to one adult breeding pair (i.e. High "reproductive bias") within a social group (or colony). Social groups cooperate in digging foraging tunnels in their burrow systems in search of underground roots, bulbs, and tubers, that are a staple diet.
In crisis
Hanang Mole-rat is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Hanang Mole-rat — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q29650861 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
