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What are a mother and 12 babies?
These are the members of the first captive family of hamsters.
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What are puppies?
This is the name for baby hamsters.
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What are the deserts of Asia?
This is the hamsters' native habitat.
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What is recognizing their name and responding to it?
This is a sign of intelligence in pets that hamsters can do.
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What is an omnivore?
Since hamsters will eat both plant products and animal products, they are this.
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What is 100%, or close enough that outliers do not count.
This is the percentage of hamsters that are descended form the first captive family of hamsters.
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What is delaying birthing by as many as 9 days?
This is what pregnant females will do if birthing conditions aren't ideal.
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What is ingesting their own waste?
This is a gross way that hamsters (and many desert animals) will conserve water.
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What is being great escape artists?
This is a trait of hamsters that makes them difficult for inexperienced pet owners?
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What is 6 inches?
This is the distance that a hamster can see in front of it.
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What is hamastra, or hamustra, meaning 'to hoard'
This is the origin of the word 'hamster'.
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What is seven?
This typically the number of babies that hamsters have in their litters.
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What is 2 meters (6 feet)?
This is how deep wild hamster burrows can be.
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What is cedar or pine?
This is a common rodent bedding material that should NEVER be used for hamsters.
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What is color blind?
This is how hamsters perceive colors.
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What is 1930 by Professor I Aharoni?
This is the year OR the person who first caught a family of Syrian Hamsters.
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What is 16 days?
This is the gestation period for hamsters
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What is a sand/dust bath?
This is how hamsters (and many desert mammals) clean themselves.
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What is hamster-specific food, fresh veggies. and fresh clean water?
This is the perfect diet for a pet hamster.
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What is 25 years?
This is how many hamster years is in one human year.
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What is 1839 by G.R. Waterhouse
This is the year OR the person who first described Syrian Hamsters?
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If you keep her in warmer temperatures, she will have more boys. If you keep her in cooler temperatures, she will have more girls.
This is the way to control the gender of unborn baby dwarf hamsters.
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What is 30-60 pounds?
Syrian farmers will raid wild hamster burrows to find this much grain that the hamsters have stored for winter.
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What are the Roborovski Hamsters, Syrian Hamsters, Russian Dwarf Hamsters, Winter White Hamsters, and Chinese Hamsters?
These are the five kinds of pet hamsters that can be kept as pets.
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What is twilight? (Bonus points for the word crepuscular)
This is the time of day hamsters are the most active.
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