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Hamster body language – what is your hamster trying to say to you?

Hamsters can communicate quite well with each other, using scent, body posture, and sounds, but humans are pretty much limited to interpreting just...

A little guide to feeding hamsters

Pet hamsters are among the easiest small animals to feed, so the easiest thing to do is to buy the best quality hamster food mixes and augment the ...

A little guide to roborovski hamsters and Chinese hamsters

Roborovski hamsters A rarer dwarf hamster, the roborovski hamster, is less well known than the syrian, campbell and winter white hamsters, but its ...

A little guide to Winter White hamsters

The dwarf winter white hamster, or phodophus sungorus in Latin, is originally from the grassy steppes of eastern Kazakhstan and southwestern Siberi...

A little guide to Campbell’s hamsters

The second most popular hamster (after the Syrian hamster of course) is the dwarf Campbell's Russian hamster or phodophus campbelli in Latin. The C...

A little guide to Syrian hamsters

Syrian hamsters are found all the way from Romania and Bulgaria south-eastward through Syria, Turkey, Israel, the Caucasus and even parts of Iran. ...

A short history of hamsters

The earliest published reference to the Syrian golden hamster was in The Natural History of Aleppo, which was published in 1740 by an English physi...

How do squirrels mate?

It is important note that though red and grey squirrels have very similar breeding biology, they do not interbreed with each other. Despite there b...

How and when to feed squirrels?

Squirrels can be drawn some considerable distance by a food table and some will travel more than a kilometre for a daily meal. However, squirrels d...

What do squirrels eat?

Squirrels are highly opportunistic creatures, and will make good use of any new food supply that becomes available, including the peanuts from your...

The Seedzbox Guide to Red Squirrels & Grey Squirrels

A short history of red squirrels Fossil bones in caves have shown that an animal, very much like our red squirrel, but called White's Squirrel (Sci...

Will red squirrels become extinct in the UK?

It is impossible to say. There is no doubt that we are in severe danger of losing the last of the red squirrels still resident in their native habi...