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Why do female hamsters kill their young2007-11-24 22:19:18

How do I stop the female hamster from killing her young.

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Why hamsters kill their young?

- gain a food resource by consuming the young (the predation hypothesis).

- gain increased access to physical resources like food, nesting sites, or space (the resource competition hypothesis).

- avoid adopting and providing providing care to unrelated offpsring (the adoption avoidance hypothesis).

bias the sex ratio of the litter

- Lastly, infanticide may be neutral or maladaptive (pathological) and may be the product of selection for another type of behavior like aggression, or may be an accident, or may be the result of disturbances in the physical or social environment (see Ebensperger 1998 for review).

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THEY'RE EVIL!

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kill her

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it's a hamster thing

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kill her first

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kill her !! mu ha ha ha ha

im not sure why that is... maybe their yummy who knows! are u a female hampster?

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separate cages...

Ive heard that the female hamster will eat their young if they free threatened. Is it in a relaxed environment..

or maybe...are you feeding it enough?

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ask the vet

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because they cant look after them it does not happen all the time some times they need the energy

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They are descended from the sabre toothed hampster of old.

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They fear they are in danger from other things. Let them alone and give them privacy.

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Put her cage up on a high shelf somewhere that is isolated. Do not handle the mother or look inside of the cage for at least 3 days after the pups are born lest you stress the mother out. Many other kinds of disturbances will stress her. She can get stressed from poor diet, mean handling, loud noises, and over-crowding. If the mother gets stressed out (and this is true especially for first time mothers or extra young mothers who should not be pregnant) she will usually do one of three things

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Well usually if you touch baby birds or there eggs