The hamster is distinguished by its gentle and gentle appearance. It has pouches that extend along its cheeks to the shoulders and are suitable for storing food. It succeeded in domesticating it a few years ago and it became a pet but abhored staying in the cage, but in its natural state where it always lives alone in a hole that it digs, it seems Loving the quarrelsome and predisposing to quarrels, when the time comes to form a family for him, the hamster digs and packs a second tunnel in which he stores huge amounts of food, and during the winter season he takes a long hibernation between the sides of his hole, but if Bin Bin bars host a warm cage, he remains active and free as usual.
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Hamsters live for up to four or five years, and the catacombs that reside in their underground spaces often include a living room, a delivery room, a pantry, and even a toilet, and in addition to the crops, they sometimes feed insects, snakes, and young mammals.
Feed the hamster
The diet of a hamster varies, as it eats a variety of foods. One of the foods that this cute animal loves most is cereals, especially sun seeds in addition to fruit and vegetable seeds, plant roots and even meat, and it may sometimes eat its droppings when hungry.
Facts about hamsters
- During the cleaning process, the hamster wet its front legs and uses them as a pair of spongy bouncers. His fur is so thick that he must use his claws and teeth.
- A female hamster transmits her chicks by mouth like a cat as a stirrer, and this animal is extremely hygienic as she learns how to remove dirt from her from an early age.
- By surprise, a strange visitor enters our companion, but the latter does not like visitors or visits, as he is forcibly expelling the intruder from the sanctity of biting and by correcting painful strikes with his sharp claws.
- When the hamster praises, the buoys are filled with air and they become a lifeline, and so their head remains above the surface of the water so that it can float safely and reassurably without much fatigue.
- The hamster stored his winter reserves of supplies of about thirty kilograms of seeds, legumes and crops, and he managed to smuggle it all by using his cheeks as two bags to carry our daily purchases, each time our hamster returned with spoils to pay himself a few tin slaps to empty his marsups full of delicious food that he had effortlessly acquired Serious.
Types of hamsters
There are 25 species of hamster, but they are classified as groups in several races:
- Winter whites hamster
- Chinese hamster
- Russian hamster
- Dwarf hamster
- Syrian hamster
Breeding hamsters
Some hamsters are born and reach sexual maturity one month after birth, others require up to three months to reach adulthood, and the breeding season starts from April to October. And after carrying the female, it is very aggressive with the male, and sometimes the situation may reach it until he quarrels and kills him, so it is obligatory for the hamster breeder to separate the female from the male at this stage, and the period of pregnancy may differ according to the gender of the hamster, some of which give birth after twenty days or more , While the pregnancy period of some other types reaches a full month and may exceed a month by days.
