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A little guide to budgies, cockatiels and grass parakeets

Budgerigars Perhaps the most popular and familiar of the small parakeets, budgerigars are native of the dry, temperate grasslands in Australia wher...

What’s the difference between parrots and other birds?

Parrots are readily separated from other bird groups by a number of unique features. Starting off, parrots have a large hooked upper beak called ro...

What is a parrot?

There is much confusion and stereotypes about parrots and what actually constitutes a parrot. They’ve been popular birds since the Roman times, alt...

What is the difference between parrot and parakeet?

The simple answer is: The difference between a parrot and a parakeet is that a parrot is a more like a broad term for the whole parrot family encom...

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

To be quite honest, most hamster-to-hamster interactions deal with aggression or sexual messages as the hamster's highest priority is to survive, a...

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...