• Question: How do ha,sters store food in there cheeks?

    Asked by incom378 to Anne, Carolyn, Joe, Mariana, Nick on 25 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Carolyn McGettigan

      Carolyn McGettigan answered on 25 Mar 2010:

      Yes, they do! They can carry an amazing amount of food in pouches inside their mouths, which enables them to carry food to their underground burrows in the wild.

      Check this out (very cute!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms3QdGIzltU

    • Photo: Nick Bradshaw

      Nick Bradshaw answered on 25 Mar 2010:

      By having very big stretchy cheeks!

    • Photo: Joseph Devlin

      Joseph Devlin answered on 25 Mar 2010:

      They have little storage pouches in their cheeks, don’t they? Never had a hamster and certainly never peered inside it’s mouth…

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