The Khomyakov family belongs to the rodent detachment. It includes 5 subfamilies (flights, hamsters, climbing hamsters, nonoxide hamsters, cottonhearted) and more than 580 species. Family representatives are small in body size. The length is from 5 to 36 cm, and the mass is from 7 g to 3 kg, depending on the type. The tail can be barely noticeable process, or exceed the body length of the hamster.
Lead a hamster of a different way of life: ground, underground, semiwater. Live mainly in natural areas as tundra, steppes, semideserts. In mountainous areas, they are also frequent inhabitants.
Dzungarian hamster
The furry hamster
Mouse hammer
Gunther Flight
Ekonoka flight
Prometheeva Flight
Syrian hamster
Hamster Radde
Hamster Newton
Other types of hamsters
Hamster Campbell
Roborovsky hamster
Ordinary hamster
Chinese hamster
Shorttailed hamster
Barabin hamster
Longtailed hamster
Gray hamster
Hamster Sokolov
Mongol hamster
Rat hamster
Angora hamster
Conclusion
Hamsters inhabit the whole North and South America. They live in Eurasia, but less often (for example, in Eurasia there are approximately 60 species of these animals). They can be found even less often in Africa. They are not in Antarctica and a number of islands.
Often are pests of agricultural land. Can also be carriers of various diseases (plague, tularemia and others). Some types of hamsters are domestic animals, for example, a Jungarian hamster or hamster Roborovsky. Although hamsters have an angry and somewhat malicious character. They can be greatly bite if they consider that they or their territory are in danger.
