Hamsters can carry almost half their body weight in their cheeks, and now this impressive feat has been caught on camera in an unprecedented way. Using X-rays, researchers from the BBC filmed a Syrian ...

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Incredible BBC footage shows how cavernous the rodents' cheek pouches are Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We have more newsletters Get daily ...

A control series of 30 male hamsters, weighing about 90 gm., were anesthetized with pentobarbital sodium (6 to 10 mg. per 100 gm. of body weight) and burned with a standardized technic. A copper rod, ...

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Hamsters can stuff their cheeks with up to 20% of their body weight. Most of the time, they fill their cheeks with food, but sometimes mother hamsters store their babies in their cheeks for protection ...

Hamsters are among the cutest pets a person can own. Japanese clothing company Mocolle agrees and created t-shirts designed to show off their cuteness — except it has a hidden, naughty bonus. Called ...

Among their many talents, hamsters have a secret trick for storing food on the run. Spacious cheek pouches on either side of their mouth are used to carry food back to underground storage chambers.

My hamster recently had an operation to remove a pouch, as it had fallen from her mouth and was just hanging there. The cheek pouches are not fixed in place and can become turned inside out (eversion ...

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From their forever-growing front teeth to their inflatable cheeks, there are many funny hamster facts that you (or the kids) may not have come across before. But if you’ve got some animal lovers who ...