The judging of hamsters usually includes a goal of promoting hamsters which conform to natural or established varieties of hamsters. In the wild, the burrow buffers extreme ambient temperatures, offers relatively stable climatic conditions, and protects against predators. The hamster tail can be difficult to see, as it is usually not very long (about 1⁄ 6 the length of the body), with the exception of the Chinese hamster, which has a tail the same length as the body.

They are extremely susceptible to rapid temperature changes and drafts, as well as extreme heat or cold. Enjoy the largest amateur porn community on the net as well as full-length scenes from the top XXX studios. Hamsters are hindgut fermenters and often eat their own feces ( coprophagy) to recover nutrients digested in the hind-gut, but not absorbed. Laboratory hamsters have not lost their ability to dig burrows; in fact, they will do this with great vigor and skill if they are provided with the appropriate substrate.Hamsters tend to love peanut butter but it is important to feed it to them carefully because this sticky food can get stuck in their cheeks.

Russian hamsters (Campbell's and Djungarian) live about two to four years in captivity, and Chinese hamsters 2 + 1⁄ 2–3 years.All hamsters are excellent diggers, constructing burrows with one or more entrances, with galleries connected to chambers for nesting, food storage, and other activities. They have thick, silky fur, which can be long or short, colored black, grey, honey, white, brown, yellow, red, or a mix, depending on the species. The Roborovski hamster ( Phodopus roborovskii) is extremely small and fast, making it difficult to keep as a pet.

It is possibly related to Old Church Slavonic khomestoru, which is either a blend of the root of Russian хомяк ( khomyak) "hamster" and a Baltic word (cf. The average litter size for Syrian hamsters is about seven pups, but can be as great as 24, which is the maximum number of pups that can be contained in the uterus. Their eyesight leads to them not having a good sense of distance or knowing where they are, but that does not stop them from climbing in (and sometimes out of) their cages or from being adventurous.Gestation lasts 16 to 18 days for Syrian hamsters, 18 to 21 days for Russian hamsters, 21 to 23 days for Chinese hamsters and 23 to 30 for Roborovski hamsters.

One extinct hamster of Cricetus, for example, lived in North Africa during the Middle Miocene, but the only extant member of that genus is the European or common hamster of Eurasia. Testimony from Grant C Riddle (born 1929, living in Lake Wildwood, CA) who had a pet hamster in 1942. The name "hamster" is a loanword from the German, which itself derives from earlier Middle High German hamastra.Female hamsters are also particularly sensitive to disturbances while giving birth, and may even eat their own young if they think they are in danger, although sometimes they are just carrying the pups in their cheek pouches. Female Chinese and Syrian hamsters are known for being aggressive toward males if kept together for too long after mating.