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Came across this while browsing Facebook, and I realized that hell, as much trivia as I know, I didn't have an answer to that. So, I whipped up Google...
...and now, I know a little bit more about hamsters than I did before. Hope someone finds this interesting, because surely I'm not the only curious person here.
Edit: Wow! Did not expect to wake up to this! Thank you, everyone! I’m supposed to ask for something now, aren’t I? Hm...pictures of cute animals, video game recommendations (preferably on the fantasy/science fiction side), or random pieces of advice!
SendMeOxygen
Hamsters must have a better branding department than rats...
zeratul1005
Funnily enough, I actually learned this first through playing Metal gear solid 5. God bless animal conservation Boss.
XanderWrites
Dwarf hamsters live in Siberia
Tirador8
How the fuck did they travel to Belgium?
iwaswasdoingfinelurking
i searched for hamsters one day....it autocorrected to xhamsters......after that i never searched for hamsters
swedishpancakeswithlingonberries
Yay for the book learnin'
RavenBlue
I was watching TV with my daughter and we saw a wild hampster and we both yelled, "Wild Hampster!!"
RavenBlue
Man, that was a stupid comment.
mirz20
What about a guinea pig
GeoScienceMan
TIL my local pet store harbors Syrian Refugees
ladylurken
When I was a kid, I didn’t know you had to separate males from newly born babies (territorial). I came home to a fucking massacre.
josepGameGod
Why is my heart beating so fast
kehrer1994
its just a chubby mouse
Zahnradfee
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldhamster#/media/File:R%C3%A9partition_hamster_d%27europe.png
kingcrouch
So I guess we should stop putting wood chips in their cages and start putting sand in them!!!!!
PanzaeronQ
Nah, sand isn't absorbent so its an even worse substrate than wood chips, hemp and wood pulp based beddings work best.
kingcrouch
*takes hamster out of sand immediately*
iCameDrinkingWhatTheyRSippin
certainly did not know they came from my country =))
v8xx
I’m pretty sure they don’t live in Belgium.
kittymoma9182000
I saw a video in which a large wild and very pissed off hamster was kicking a Russian dudes ass! Don't piss off wild hamsters..
gendeates
Well shit, hamsters are good pets during those hot summer months.
SirDistic
Did you know that there are 12 deaths a year from wild hamster attacks? They have been known to take down animals 15 times their size.
BuiscutLover2015
Another reason to stop bombing Syria
Meddafizziks
Too late, they're listed as endangered. Also the ones in captivity are all decenants of a litter of thirteen.
BigJewishHulk
That's a weird list of countries. Also, belgium? What
rampa
I live there and never saw a wild hamster. I'm absolutely sure someone drank too much beer and mixed up between hamster and something else.
bunnynamednelson
just did some research and the government actually has quite a budget to preserve wild hamsters.. I've never seen a wild one either
HowComeDespiteTheFact
You do in fact have big ass wild hamsters in belgium
slidewhistlesymphony
Now Google chinchillas.
MsDavidAttenborough
High cold plateaus of the Andes mountains in South America. Cousins of guinea pigs!
blarglebrle
Fuzzy cloud that eats meat.
MsDavidAttenborough
They are vegetarians..
LannistersSendTheirRetards
I guess I always just assumed the just popped into existence in pet stores. I didn't realize they had an actual origin
CatsOrExcited
The Smithsonian just did a feature on how the wild hamsters are stuck eating mostly corn. Lack vit B, and therefore eat their babies. :(
CatsOrExcited
Literally just read it a few hours ago. Magazine was on the kitchen table. I assume it was March's edition.
BriefausdemGeist
That seems like a weirdly broad dispersal. Did a Greek trader from Bactria visit Syria and really like them? Did a Roman solider bring one
Raenon
Different breeds/species.
BriefausdemGeist
To Belgium?
jeandolly
To the renowned Steppes, Sand dunes and Deserts of Belgium.
HiddenSanity
I mean... wolves live on three different continents.
SlyMrFox
And foxes on every continent but Antarctica
Ulthirm
And all can be traced due to their differences its actually kind of cool.
HeavenlyDivine
Shoot it never once crossed my mind. Thanks @Op
SuicidalThrillbillyturnedLunaticChillbilly
In gay dudes butts.
MyLifeIsPotat0
Lube A Tube
wildatheart499
Journey on Lemmiwinks
theheebs25
they only vacation there
realtorboi
IE Richard Gere
BklynPunisher
Well, they did mention Greece.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
Why only gays? Why only dudes?
GhoulsGoneFeral
I mean. You're not wrong, but then again...ANYTHING FOR PROFESSOR CHAOS. MUAHAGAHAHAHA!
ChocolateCookieAndFudge
Kiki?
corbynDallas
Napathetik
Fun fact, before the invention of the endoscope. "Sounding Hamsters" were used to check for prostate cancer and the like.
dilphyo
Source?
Napathetik
Quite frankly I pulled it straight out of my ass.
dilphyo
Lol I thought so
Zahnradfee
I once was in an exhibition about ancient murders. There was a grave with women and children. Somewhen later a hamster had dug through, >
Zahnradfee
carried some of the bones to a different place and later died itself, leaving its skeleton as an addition. The entire scene was preserved >
Zahnradfee
as a block and shown in the exhibition.
HoneyandFire
They live in the black forest, where the ham comes from.
dancfontaine
Subway be pretentious as hell
squirreltactics
That's in Germany
Kleinstlebewesen
well yeah feldhamster or goldhamster
BanannaWreckerLife
-slaps forehead- omg duh
fadecomic
They liked ham before it was cool.
MeanWinchester
And the Gateau
LongtimeIMGURlurkertotallynotstalkerguy
- says a guy from Champagne
Mokelzwerg
I‘m from the Black Forest and this is news to me
DasJediWay
Took me a second
Astrius
And delicious Gummi Bears also
Pigswithstripes
Also wild hamsters in Austria. For example on the biggest and oldest cemetery of Vienna.
chickadeedeedeedee
Nah. That’s where the guinea pigs live. Roast one of them up and you got yourself some Black Forest Ham.
was821
I got ham but I'm not a hamster
dancfontaine
I got ham but I'm not a hamster
TheresAGermanWordForThat
They look a bit different than the domestic variant, though
CarnVanBeck
That's a Wolpertinger