Hamsters are typically stout-bodied, with tails shorter than body length, and have small, furry ears, short, stocky legs, and wide feet.

Hamsters have poor eyesight ; they are nearsighted and colorblind.

Hamsters in the Middle East have been known to hunt in packs to find insects for food.

Khunen writes, " Hamsters are nocturnal rodents who are active during the night ...", but others have written that because hamsters live underground during most of the day, only leaving their burrows about an hour before sundown and then returning when it gets dark, their behavior is primarily crepuscular.

Hamsters are born hairless and blind in a nest the mother will have prepared in advance.

A number of leading bands have played at the club including Deathstars, Fightstar, Witchfynde, Hayseed Dixie, Hardcore Superstar, Wishbone Ash, The Hamsters, John Parr, Ade Edmondson, Tygers of Pan Tang and Vampires Rock.

Hamsters and rabbits have also been used in preliminary studies because of their faster breeding.

Hamsters also use their sense of smell to identify pheromones and gender, and locate food.

He also worked on Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters ( a parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which itself was a parody of many current comic books ), and Shock the Monkey.

There were a number of spin-offs: Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters in 3-D ( illustrated by Ty Templeton ) ran for four issues in 1986 ( also available in non-3D editions ); Clint: Hamster Triumphant was a two issue series focusing on one of the hamsters ; and Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters Massacre the Japanese Invasion was a one shot in 1989.

The Hamsters also appeared in Total Eclipse and Naive Inter-Dimensional Commando Koalas.

Bass guitarist, Andy Billups, who plays with British rock act The Hamsters, has also made a partial recovery from this disorder and continued to play by using modified guitar plectrums to make up for the limited function of his right hand.

The character ’ s popularity also led to parodies of Boris himself and “ revenge ” stories appearing in titles such as Blackthorne Publishing ’ s Laffin ’ Gas and Eclipse Comics ’ Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters.

Hamsters become fertile at different ages depending on their species.

* Zhu Zhu Pets, a popular toy sometimes marketed as Go Go Hamsters

Hamsters, guinea pigs and chinchillas eat their own droppings, which are thought to be a source of vitamins B and K, produced by bacteria in the gut.

Hamsters are rodents belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.

Hamsters are crepuscular animals which burrow underground in the daylight to avoid being caught by predators.

Hamsters are very flexible, but their bones are somewhat fragile.

Hamsters are omnivores.

Hamsters are hindgut fermenters and must eat their own feces ( coprophagy ) to recover nutrients digested in the hindgut, but not absorbed.

Hamsters are seasonal breeders and will produce several litters a year with several pups in each litter.

Hamsters are found in the wild throughout Europe and Asia and are considered to be extremely adaptable, living in scrublands, sand dunes, desert steppes and farmlands.

Hamsters carrying the black gene ( almost half of all variations ) are prone to " silvering "; in extreme cases the eventual result is an almost white hamster.

Hamsters are famous larder hoarders.

* The opening notes of " Heavy Metal Hamsters " are from the riff of the song " Rat Bat Blue " by Deep Purple.

Hamsters showed no preference between a relatively uniform running surface made of plastic mesh and a surface made of rungs spaced 9 mm apart, though they did prefer the mesh over rungs spaced 12 mm apart, most likely because the wider space between the rungs let the legs slip through sometimes.

Hamsters keep on using wheels even in captivity conditions that include other kinds of enrichment.

The Eastern Imperial Eagle feeds mainly on European Hares, European Hamsters and Common Pheasants as well as a variety of other birds and mammals.

On the other hand, the track " Heavy Metal Hamsters " ( supposedly written about the band's former record company ) was, according to Michael Weikath, never intended to be on the album, but rather on a B-side of a single.

Hamsters may not hibernate per se, but instead reduce the rate of a number of physiological systems, such as breathing and heart rate, for short periods of time.

Throughout 2005 and 2006 Otway teamed up with The Hamsters and Wilko Johnson as part of The Mad, the Bad & the Dangerous tour.

The album was less heavy, and with song titles such as " Heavy Metal Hamsters ", " I'm Doing Fine, Crazy Man ", and " Shit and Lobster ", showed a shift toward — and an emphasis on — humor rather than the epic moods on previous releases.

Hamsters fed with contaminated soil exhibited first scrapie-associated symptoms at 2 weeks to 6 months ( 95 % CI ) after the first application.

Throughout 2005 and 2006 the band teamed up with The Hamsters and John Otway to take part in the The Mad, the Bad & the Dangerous tour.

The game on the Codename: Kids Next Door website, Flight of the Hamsters, features the song.

Acts who appeared included: Gloria Gaynor, George Roper, Ken Dodd, Duncan Norvelle, Black Lace, Bernie Winters, Stutz Bear Cats, Kit and the Widow, Wall Street Crash, Kiki Dee, Diane Solomon, Michael Ball, ' Nasty Nigel ' Lythgoe, Martin " The Beast " Francis, Tom Pepper, Fay Presto, Pete Price, Manhattan Transfer, Shane Richie, The Flaming Hamsters, Stan Boardman, Fascinating Aida, Showaddywaddy, Kajagoogoo, Frankie Howerd, Colm Wilkinson, Wilfrid Brambell from Steptoe and Son, Sinitta, Five Star, Indigo Lady, Cheryl Baker, Phil Cornwell, Jaki Graham, Nana Mouskouri, The Chuckle Brothers, Brian Conley, Roy Walker, Wayne Sleep, Andrew O ' Connor, Gareth Hunt, Peter Beckett, Syd Lawrence ( with his orchestra ), Frankie Vaughan, Jessica Martin, George Roper, Caroline Cossey, The Foxes, Mud, Chris Emmett, Keith Harris and Orville, Mick Miller, Diane Solomon, Mark Heap ( The Two Marks ) and Vince Hill.

They have also led the nation in the direction of a welfare state.

But where we have both dark and light we have also the inexplicable.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

He has also enjoyed a successful career as an entertainer ( his records have sold in the millions ) and is a sharp businessman.

He caused a lot of talk when he also chose the breakfast hour to have the barber come in and trim his hair while he ate.

We may also recognize cases in which the poets have influenced the philosophers and even indirectly the scientists.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.

But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;

I also had and have feelings about Garibaldi.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.

And the pitching will also have trouble doing better.

If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won't have much research to do.

The scientists have also warned that no life above ground or underground, sheltered or unsheltered could be expected to survive in an area at least 50 miles in diameter.

We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.

I have done all this for the freedom of the individuals concerned and also for the states which have been threatened by Communist domination.

and also that they may have 5 legislative days in which to extend their remarks.