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The workers are all females yet they are not fertile; this is because of the hormones in the queen’s urine-sweet. This is only temporary though and when the queen dies one of the workers will replace it. The soldiers on the other hand are all fertile males. Each week a group of chosen soldiers fight each other to death and the winner gets to mate with the queen. After the mating the soldier is killed by the queen’s workers and fed to her. The queen gives birth every week to about 10 babies. They are altricial, and need much care from the workers.

Like their ancestor they house themselves in deep underground nests, containing many chambers. Some are resting places for workers, others are for raising young, one is for the queen, and most are for storing food. Their main food is the dung of macrofauna they gather. Another way they gather this is by raiding nests of other scavengundis or even diggerundis for their shroom-farms there they keep all their dung. Now that they no longer tend to shrooms and the shrooms compete with them on their dung, they have learned to kill the shrooms; this is done by a special workers’ class that does this as well as other tasks. It is possible that this sub-class evolved from the diggerundi farmer class. They now use their puffy cheeks to store the dung they gather back to the nest, since they breathe through their rears they can hold is without having to hold their breath.