ON TRAVAILLE POUR LE HAMSTER - LES P'TITS BONZOMS

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Both Syrian and Russian hamsters mature quickly and can begin reproducing at a young age (4–5 weeks), whereas Chinese hamsters will usually begin reproducing at two to three months of age, and Roborovskis at three to four months of age. The coat of the winter white dwarf hamster ( Phodopus sungorus) turns almost white during winter (when the hours of daylight decrease). If housed together, acute and chronic stress might occur, [8] and they might fight fiercely, sometimes fatally. Hamsters tend to love peanut butter but it is important to feed it to them carefully because this sticky food can get stuck in their cheeks.

These littermates were captured and imported in 1930 from Aleppo in Syria by Israel Aharoni, a zoologist of the University of Jerusalem. It is possibly related to Old Church Slavonic khomestoru, which is either a blend of the root of Russian хомяк ( khomyak) "hamster" and a Baltic word (cf. Laboratory hamsters have not lost their ability to dig burrows; in fact, they will do this with great vigor and skill if they are provided with the appropriate substrate. Comparative studies of domestic and wild Syrian hamsters have shown reduced genetic variability in the domestic strain.It may be hard for the babies to not rely on their mother for nursing during this time, so it is important that they are supplied with food to make the transition from nursing to eating on their own easier.

One rodent characteristic that can be highly visible in hamsters is their sharp incisors; they have an upper pair and lower pair which grow continuously throughout life, so must be regularly worn down.Other hamster species commonly kept as pets are the three species of dwarf hamster, Campbell's dwarf hamster ( Phodopus campbelli), the winter white dwarf hamster ( Phodopus sungorus) and the Roborovski hamster ( Phodopus roborovskii). Taxonomists generally disagree about the most appropriate placement of the subfamily Cricetinae within the superfamily Muroidea.