When were hamsters discovered?

Answer 1

There are plenty still left in the wild. In fact there are 18 species of hamsters and about 85% of those are wild.

British zoologist Leonard Goodwin claimed that most hamsters kept in the United Kingdom were descended from the colony he introduced for medical research purposes during the Second World War.

Here is some more on the history of hamsters:

In 1839, British zoologist George Waterhouse reportedly found an elderly female hamster in Syria, naming it "Cricetus auratus," the Golden Hamster.

Around 1930, zoologist and Professor at the University of Jerusalem Aharoni found a mother and litter of hamsters in the Syrian desert. By the time he got back to his lab, most had died or escaped. The remaining hamsters were given to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where they were successfully bred as Golden Hamsters. They were a bit bigger than the ones Waterhouse found, so they were named "Mesocricetus auratus", although they were probably the same species.

They arrived in the United Kingdom in 1931, and in 1938 reached the United States.

The Dwarf Campbells Russian, Winter White Russian and Chinese were all introduced to the pet market in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, and the Roborovski hamster came from Holland into the UK in 1990.

Hamsters were discovered in 1839.

Answer 2

Well, hamsters were just part of life. You can't just invent a hamster. But I think you can clone a mouse and a gerbil and create a hamster.

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Answer 3

There is no way to be sure, the story goes basically like this. One day a person got tired of running after their pet and made a container to keep them in.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Since Noah's Ark.

Answer 6

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