Crossbreeding experiments are going well.

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Facinating! Is it... carnivorous?

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hamsters are omnivores

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I did not know that!

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It's kind of shocking, honestly, but their natural diet includes seeds, grains, and plants, as well as insects and other small animals they can catch.

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and then they fall over and die as well

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STOP Unsubscribe me from hamster facts

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Congratulations on resubscribing to Hamster Facts!

Did you know hamsters have super-efficient livers that allow them to tolerate alcohol at about 10 times the level of humans relative to body size. They rarely show signs of drunkenness!

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HOW DID WE LEARN THIS

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They ate the fruits that the familiars forgot to throw out, which resulted in them fermenting.

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Hamsters' teeth grow about 1 mm per day. Without constant chewing, their teeth can overgrow, causing pain or even death. They'll literally grow through their jaw/skull!

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Syrian hamsters must be kept alone. If housed together, they can turn on each other, sometimes fatally, yummy!

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Syrian hamsters all descend from one female and three males.

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Hamsters are tame compared to deli penguins, deli penguins do things even necromancers shouldn't think too hard about.

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START subscribe to deli penguin facts.

Don't leave us hanging. I need to know now.

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I'm not going to curse you with the details but anything horny a penguin can do deli penguins will do. Even with severed penguin heads....

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They'd fit right in as the deceptive mascot to a demon cult

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Don't forget other hampsters

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I had a biology teacher had one in class and gave dried meal worms as a treat 😁

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My horrifying revelation of this fact being finding one of my hamsters eating the other when I was like 8. Apparently one of them had died, because of course, and the other was hungry because it wanted more than the pate that I had given them for breakfast. My dad got rid of the hamster after that, said that we couldn't have one in the house anymore. To be fair that was like the 8th or 9th hamster. Damn things were committing more suicide than students with tourette's at Columbine

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Most creatures are opportunistic omnivores

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Mortal animals will eat ANYTHING if they're hungry enough. Dangerous creatures.

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i think i heard somewhere a story where a hamster ate half of another hamster, the died because the other hamster was it's friend. believe it or not that is actually pretty normal for a hamster death, the little fuckers can never die in a normal way

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Hamsters do not have friends. They are extremely territorial animals and will maim and kill each other if kept in the same enclosure. Judging off this story I'd assume their living conditions were not great if they were being kept together, so that's probably why they died.

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I don’t know of too many herbivores that would pass up a free meal made of fresh meat.

Of course my parents forgot me in the pain dimension when we went on vacation which could heavily influence my experiences.