The European Hamster
You’ve probably watched your hamster companion enjoying natural enrichment, and imagined them in the wild. Credit: Wildlife Travel What if we hadn’t captured and calmed our fuzzy friends over 100 years ago? What kind of lives would their wild ancestors have now? How would their species have coped with human overdevelopment, conflict, intensive farming? The UK has never had any wild hamsters. The species we keep as companions don’t survive the UK climate and ecosystem; escapees and abandoned...
