🐭Golden hamster
敘利亞倉鼠（學名：Mesocricetus auratus），也叫黃金倉鼠、金倉鼠、 黃金鼠、金色中倉鼠、金丝熊，是倉鼠科中倉鼠屬的一種，也是最廣為人知的倉鼠。 敘利亞倉鼠現在可能已在野外消失，但在全世界卻被廣泛作為家庭寵物飼養，目前大部分在英美寵物店販售的倉鼠即是敘利亞倉鼠。此外，因為所有的人工飼養黃金倉鼠血緣都來自同一窩，他們也一直被用來進行科學實驗和行為研究，尤其是風道和呼吸生理學的研究。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 0.1 kg
- Body length
- 0.18 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 9.99 years
Everything we know about the Golden hamster
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.1 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 0.1 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.18 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass1.12 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan9.99 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 3.9 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length2.16 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity51 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation16 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 16 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 9COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 9AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Golden hamster yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyCricetidae
- ›genusMesocricetus
- ›speciesMesocricetus auratus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- subfamilyCricetinae
- genusMesocricetus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderMyomorpha
- familyCricetidae
- subfamilyCricetinae
- genusMesocricetus
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