Selasa, 28 Juli 2009

Hamster, who does the funny

Hamster is a kind of rodent animals. Forms such as mice. There are various types of animal in the world and in almost every country. Hamster to include in subfamili cricetinae. Subfamili is divided into about 18 species, classified in six or seven genus. Hamster is often used as experimental animals in the laboratory (due to their rapid reproduction) with rat and other rodent.

The characteristics of hamster

Hamster has a fat body, with a shorter tail than the body and has a furry ear, a foot wide,
short and short-fat. Hamster has a thick fur and long, and thick have different colors depending on the animal species, such as black, gray, white, brown, yellow and red. The lower part of the animal is a white to gray and black. Dzhungaria hamster (Phodopus sungorus) and the linear dwarf hamster (Cricetulus barabensis) has a black line under the middle of the back. dwarf hamster deserts (genus Phodopus) are smallest hamster, with a body length of 5 to 10 centimeters (about 2 to 4 inches), while the hamster is the biggest European hamster (Cricetus cricetus), with a body length of more than 34 centimeters, not including the short tail which has 6 centimeters long.

Hamster habitat

Hamster habitat located in the north of Europe until the middle of Siberia, Mongolia, and northern China to Korea. In the hamster habitat extends from southern Syria to Pakistan. They live on the border of the sand dune that divegetasi, foothill and lowland that with bushes and berbatu, in the river valley, and pasture area, some also live in the fields planting. Geographic distribution of some species divide, for example, found in the European hamster central Europe and western Siberia and northwestern China, but the golden hamster is found only in a small town in northwestern Syria.

What is food?

Hamster is being omnivora. Their food is usually rice grains, but also includes fresh fruit, root, part of the green plants, invertebrates and some other small animals (insects such as locusts). Hamster bring them food in their cheek pouch which is entered into the hole for their food. [1]. However, not all suitable for animal food, some foods, such as leaves from the tomato-toxic, food becomes the most dangerous for the hamster's health.

People may not know about food safety, such as cucumber to feed the chickens and their fresh fruit and toxic sitrus second opinion on this matter that there is one. Cucumber has very little good nutrition and can cause problems in heart, and some do not like the hamster taste of fruit sitrus, but sitrus safe to be on the hamster. Hamster exposed to the disease may not get diabetes food that contains sugar is high, such as fruit and corn. Components hamster food so divided 3 categories: dry, fresh, and food animals. [1]

Hamster behavior

Hamster is usually silent and nokturnal although it can be said also krepuskular and they sometimes active in the early morning or late afternoon. They are a good spade, make holes with the entrance of one or more of the gallery and is connected with the room for their nest, food warehouses and other events. There is no hamster berhibernasi during the winter, but some experience torpor occurred during the period of several days to several months.

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