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hamsterAny of a group of burrowing rodents with a thickset body, short tail, and cheek pouches to carry food. Several genera are found across Asia and in southeastern Europe. Hamsters are often kept as pets. (Genera include Cricetus and Mesocricetus, family Cricetidae.) Species include the European and Asian black-bellied or common hamster (C. cricetus), about 25 cm/10 in long, which can be a crop pest and stores up to 90 kg/200 lb of seeds in its burrow. The golden hamster (M. auratus) lives in western Asia and southeastern Europe. All golden hamsters now kept as pets originated from one female and 12 young captured in Syria in 1930.
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Illustrated with warm, personable watercolor paintings by award-winning artist Michaelin Otis Andy and Pancake is the picturebook story of a young boy and his new pet hamster, who turns out to be quite the skillful escape artist Hamsters and other pet rodents are probably underappreciated spreaders of salmonella bacteria, researchers say. The Guardian reports that an escaped hamster compelled an Austrian Airlines flight to make an early landing. |
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