Weird Animals – A List Of The World’s Strangest Species

Naked Mole Rat
Naked Mole Rat
Scientific name: Heterocephalus glaber

Type of animal: Mammal

Family: Heterocephalidae

Where found: Africa

Conservation status: Least Concern

One of the world’s weirdest rodents is the naked mole rat, a species found in the grasslands of eastern Africa.

Famed for its bizarre appearance, the naked mole rat has wrinkled, hairless skin and large, protruding teeth.

Naked mole rats live underground in large colonies consisting of a queen and numerous worker rats. This type of social living, which resembles that seen in bee and ant colonies, is known as eusociality.

These strange rodents are known for their ability to live in low-oxygen habitats, and have been recorded as being able to survive 18 minutes in an atmosphere that lacks oxygen entirely.