Damaraland
Americannoun
noun
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She said she is familiar with the zoo’s array of animals — from the naked mole rats to the Damaraland mole rats, “which are less naked and much bigger,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021
Poaching is a scourge in Damaraland, an arid region of rocky outcroppings in northwest Namibia.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2017
Buffenstein pulls a Damaraland mole rat out of its cage so we can give it a closer look.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2011
One of these—a Damaraland mole rat—slithers into a tube when we arrive and begins stomping its hind-paws on the floor, brushing them backwards.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2011
No mountains I had ever seen—not the Drakensberg or the red kopjes of Damaraland or the cold, white peaks around Erzerum—ever looked so unearthly and uncanny.
From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
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