The secret of hamster's love to chew.

One Saturday morning, I went to feed the hamster as usual. I leaned into the cage with a melon seed, trying to seduce it, but the hamster grabbed it with its hand, grabbed it from me and swallowed it quickly. I thought it was very strange, so I fed another one to see it more carefully. This time, it bit with its teeth and swallowed it again. At the moment it swallowed, its cheeks bulged a little. I fed another one, and it's gone ... In a blink of an eye, all the melon seeds in my hand are gone. What's the matter? At this time, I saw it run to a corner of the cage and spit out the melon seeds. I heard my parents tell me about ruminants. Is hamster a ruminant? Will you ruminate?

Strong curiosity led me to the computer, and I lost the "ruminant". Baidu Encyclopedia told me that ruminant refers to returning semi-digested food to the mouth to chew again after eating for a period of time. Ruminants are animals that chew their nails, and their * * * characteristics are cloven-hoofed. I know that even hoofs don't mean that the number of feet is even, but that the number of toes is even-usually two or four, so I just need to count how many toes it has. I quickly took the hamster out. After counting, the front and rear feet were all five toes, which definitely wasn't cloven hoofs. At this moment, I looked at its pink pointed toes and couldn't help laughing at myself. This soft and thin toe can't be regarded as a hoof. It's obviously a claw. It was caught by cloven hoofs just now. At this moment, I'm sure it's not a ruminant. Let me look at the definition of rumination again, and think about the little hamster's behavior just now. Its food didn't sink into its stomach at all, but it stayed in its cheek for a while. When it was spit out, it was not semi-digested, but how did its food get into its cheek?

I checked online again, and it turns out that this is due to its eating habits: hamsters don't eat regularly. They eat whenever they want. If you give them too much food, when they can't eat, they will greedily stuff food into their cheeks, and then find a safe place to spit it out. Their cheeks have a pair of cheek pouches, which are like a carry-on warehouse.

The HAMSTER's warehouse is a warehouse, and its English name is Hamster, which comes from German Hamster, meaning storage.

lovely hamster, I know so much about you.