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hamster - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Hamsters feed on grain and other plant matter and are serious agricultural pests in many parts of their range. |
 | | The common, or European, hamster, Cricetus cricetus, of the temperate parts of Europe and W Asia, is reddish brown with fl underparts and white patches on the nose, cheeks, throat and flanks. |
 | | The Syrian, or golden, hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, of E Europe and W Asia, is familiar as a laboratory animal and pet, but is little known in the wild state; all of the domestic stock is descended from a single group captured in 1930. |
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