If you have young children, chances are you get weekly, if not daily, requests for a pet. While a family cat or dog is a right of passage for many, it can be a lot of responsibility for children who ...

Forget surviving off a silo of corn if the apocalypse ever rolls around — if a recent study is any indication, the eventual lack of proper nutrients may drive you into the arms of crazed cannibalism.

An all-corn diet can quite literally turn a female hamster into a cannibal. A new study found that the European hamster, which once used to feast on a varied diet of grains, roots, and insects, is not ...

Hamsters react to even brief social stress and defeat in ways similar to humans, Georgia State researchers discovered. When a young hamster was placed in an older and larger hamster's home cage, the ...

The first sign that something was wrong was that the female hamsters were really active in their cages. These were European hamsters, a species that is endangered in France and thought to be on the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The daily 1-h intake of solid diet, 7% sucrose solution, and water of gerbils and hamsters tested for a 15-day period was investigated.

In the May 2003 issue of EMBO reports, researchers from the German Robert Koch Institute in Berlin report finding the pathological prion protein PrPSc in a wide range of skeletal muscles after feeding ...