Hamster Observation

Erika, Amber, and I received our hamster at the end of October, which we named Peaches. He is curious, chubby, and docile Syrian hamster. In the first two weeks of Peaches arrival, we the students learned about the responsibility of taking care of a pet. Each day my group members and I take turns feeding and giving water to our hamster. We also learned how to properly clean their cages, which took place once a week during class. Mr. Pott’s taught us the slogan: “Blue then Yellow and everything mellow” the order of the disinfectants that we use to sanitize our hamster cage.

Along with interacting with our hamster, our teacher gave us each a lab animal data collection and behavioral observations worksheet to complete each week. We were to

I was surprised that when a cheerio was placed in Peaches’ vision, there was an increase and or decrease in the amount of time per trials. The time intervals included the amount of time the hamster is placed in the pot to the time it takes for him or her to look out, from looking out of the pot to the beginning of the climb, and the time taken in the process of the climb out of the pot. I think this experiment would work better in the future if we were to change the height of the flower pot and modify the incentive (cheerio) to a stronger scent for more accurate

It’s fascinating to watch him shred paper towels, toilet paper rolls, and other bedding into a soft fluffy nest. I did not realize how intelligent hamsters were. . He enjoys running on his exercise wheel and exploring the vicinity of the classroom in his ball. Peaches is a happy and healthy hamster thanks to my individual work and support in raising him. I would also like to thank my two group members for their individual work in this hamster journey for the past three months. But unfortunately not all the hamsters were quite as lucky as ours.

Hamsters are rodents and are distant relatives of mice and rats. Hamsters are small, almost tailless, relatively clean, affordable, easy to care for, and a popular pet. Reproduction among hamsters takes place during the stage of life between puberty and menopause. Laboratory animals aren’t usually mated at the first estrous because during puberty even though the animals are capable of reproduction, the female hamsters will not have attained mature body size, gestation, and lactation tend to delay their