วันจันทร์ที่ 14 พฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2554

The amazing hamster storing food

Video CATURDAY morning shows a hamster and a lot of sunflower seeds and carrots - what will happen

Those of you (all three of you) who follow this blog know that Saturday is

CATURDAY

, and the mornings are reserved for video CATURDAY stupid animals (mainly cats videos), with the hope that these videos will give you a smile and help humans adjust our attitudes busy, so we are able to spend time with our families and friends.

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this morning is not a video chat, but it's fun, animal shows a Syrian (golden) hamster

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, called the smoke filling their cheek pouches full of food. It's really fun to see how you can put in:

Like most children, who finally managed to get a pet golden hamster (after asking too much) - a guy sweet name of Caesar. He and I made a series of experiments, some of which focus on food, particularly for recording (1) the amount of sunflower seeds (2) cores that could fit in their bags or ( 3) the number of elements that could enter in their bags when offered a mixture of both. It also measures how quickly things could these elements. (I concluded that a hamster can do as many articles as they are offered a mix, but I now I can not remember the accuracy. I do not remember the speed with which Caesar could get his bags, alas!) And yes, I had a laptop with this scientific data stored in them, too.


As a child I read everything I could find on golden hamsters and found his story reads like the legend of slavery. Were discovered in Syria in 1839 by the British zoologist George Waterhouse Robert, who brought a copy of your skin in the British Museum of Natural History (where she resides to this day). But the qualities of the hamster did not realize until another zoologist Israel Aharoni, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, captured a mother hamster and her litter of puppies in Aleppo, Syria in 1930 . As a child, I thought of her as "Eve" and I refer to this as the golden hamster "mitochondrial Eve" for reasons that will become obvious.

The rumor that I read as a child was that the good professor has some of the puppies home to their children, who keep them as pets. (I have no idea if this is true and can not find any confirmation, so I think that pure mythology.)

Litter original golden hamsters were bred in Jerusalem as laboratory animals. Be escape artists who are, some escaped and established cleaning and therefore held in Israel, where there may be a wild population that is until today.
Other descendants "mitochondrial Eve" were sent to the Office of Scientific Research Welcome to the UK in 1931. They grow well and two more pairs were delivered to the Zoological Society of London in 1932, and finally got a few private breeders in 1937. Golden hamsters - at least those in North America - are all descendants of this woman "mitochondrial Eve", as recent studies of mitochondrial DNA has been established that all domestic hamsters are descendants of a gold woman - probably captured in 1930 in Syria.


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