Hamsters Celebrate 70 Years in the US
Critter News
OCTOBER 21, 2008
Now, one million hamsters are kept as pets, an increase of 41 percent since 2001. Sadly, though, some 200,000 hamsters were used for research in the United States in 2000, third behind rats and mice. Prior to the 1970s, virtually all were descended from one breeding pair.
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