● Popular as family pets
● Male hamsters are called ‘Bucks’ and females hamsters are called ‘Does’
● They have a stout body with strong legs and wide feet
● They have cheek pouches on either side of their heads falling to their shoulders, which they use to store and carry food
● Their tails are shorter, and they generally have small pointy ears
● Hamsters are generally omnivorous
● Hamsters are color blinded
● Hamsters can only see up to six inches in front of them
● They're most active during twilight
● Hamsters can be taught to react to names
● Hamsters remember their relatives
● Baby hamsters are called pups
● If hamster babies are born weak or dead, their mother will eat them
● Normally, the breeding season of dwarf hamsters' is from April to
September. However, if kept in lighting for eight hours or more a day,
they will breed throughout the year
● Regulation of temperature helps to determine the sex of dwarf hamster
babies. Keeping the mother in warmer temperatures will lead to birth of
more males, whereas keeping her in cooler temperatures will lead to the
birth of more females
● Hamsters have 16 teeth, but only 4 are visible
● The largest is the Common hamster, measuring up to 34 cm long
● Teddy Bear hamsters are the smartest kind of hamster
● Roborovski Dwarfs are the smallest kind of hamster
● Golden Hamsters sometimes eat their own waste to conserve water
● Campbell's Dwarf hamsters are a very new breed. They weren't widely sold as pets until around 1995
● When they go into hibernation, their body gets so cold that owners should wake up them in order to keep them alive
● The hamsters native habitat is the deserts of Asia
● In the wild hamsters burrows can be up to 2 metres deep
● Hamsters can run up to 10 kilometers in a single night on an exercise wheel
● 1 human year = 25 hamster years
● Hamsters' life span is about 2 years
● If you are getting hamsters its best not to buy them them a plastic cage as they may chew it
● Hamsters are normally allergic to cedar
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