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

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 – hamster facial expressions

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

Hamster Food - A 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 ...

Roborovski & Chinese Hamsters - Our Guide

What is a Roborovski Hamster? A rarer dwarf hamster, the roborovski hamster, is less well known than the syrian, campbell and winter white hamsters...

Winter White Hamsters - Our Guide

What are Winter White Hamsters? The dwarf winter white hamster, or phodophus sungorus in Latin, is originally from the grassy steppes of eastern Ka...

Campbell's Hamsters - Our Guide

What are Campbell's Hamsters? The second most popular hamster (after the Syrian hamster of course) is the dwarf Campbell's Russian hamster or phodo...

Syrian Hamsters - Our Guide

What are Syrian Hamsters? Syrian hamsters are found all the way from Romania and Bulgaria south-eastward through Syria, Turkey, Israel, the Caucasu...

A History of Hamsters

When were hamsters first discovered? The earliest published reference to the Syrian golden hamster was in The Natural History of Aleppo, which was ...

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 can you 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 and where do squirrels store food?

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

Red and Grey Squirrels - What's The Difference?

Where do Red Squirrels come from? Fossil bones in caves have shown that an animal, very much like our red squirrel, but called White's Squirrel (Sc...