Ee’s ‘amstair!
p. Mr. Bsag was trying to remember the proper term for baby hamsters this evening (I forget why), and—embarrassingly given my profession—I couldn’t remember either. We hit Google for an answer, and in the course of our search, found the World’s Cutest Hamster Picture [“here”:http://www.hamsterific.com/Hamsterpics/FNF/Black-Pearl.jpg]. This little smasher is a Djungarian hamster (Phodopus campbelli, also erroneously known as a Siberian hamster—”Ee’s no rat! Ee’s ‘amstair!”). The males of this species show extremely unusual behaviour for mammals; they [“act as midwives to the females”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/720421.stm], pulling the babies gently out of the birth canal, and cleaning off the placenta to clear their airways.
p. The term is ‘pups’, by the way, just in case you are on tenterhooks. Obvious, really.
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that's certainly a cute hamster, but i don't thing it beats the world's smallest: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3223403.stm
is it just me who pronounces it, and hence usually misspells it, 'hampster'?----- apparently i also confuse 'thing' and 'think'.
by dvd @ 26/11/2003 1:11 pm • Permalink •
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Or mis-spells 'embarrassingly', apparently.
by bsag @ 26/11/2003 7:11 pm • Permalink •
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dvd: Yes, I saw that a few weeks back a few weeks ago, but forgot to blog about it. It's a good job you can't hear me, because my voice goes embarassingly high and baby talk-ish when I talk about that teeny tiny liddle hamster. Ahem.
And no, you aren't the only one who says or writes 'hampster'. I don't know why that is...
by bsag @ 26/11/2003 7:12 pm • Permalink •
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