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Science MemesApparently when a captive hamster does it it's usually caused by a nutrient deficiency. There was some research like a decade ago on how corn based diets didn't offer enough B3 and would create nearly 100% cannibalism rates, with similar problems in diets lacking in protein.
So if you've ever had a mad cannibal hamster mom don't worry, it was YOUR fault!
Sometimes the babies eat the mom too. Yes I speak from... I guess second-hand experience. First-hand would imply I was a matricidal cannibal hamster.
That is way more impressive. Any idiot can eat a baby.
Tarrare, is that you?
wow, TIL. Poor guy.
That whole wikipedia page reads like a tall tale.
Who would you rather fight: one mumma sized hamster or 5 baby sized hamsters?
I'm going to have to go with Ditka.
Depends on the species of the mumma / baby used to size the hamsters.
Amoeba: I'm taking the 5 babies. It'll be harder but I still like my chances.
Oak Tree: I think my only chance is to take the babies, Though I'd be tempted to choose momma just to marvel at such a creature.
Elephant: No good options here, in a fair fight I'd lose either match. I think my only shot is to choose the momma hamster and try to win through trickery.
Hummingbird: I would lose via forfeit. They're too cute I can't do it.
Hummingbirds I get, but you're telling me scientists finally figured out how to get elephants to bone hamsters?
But can any baby eat an idiot?
No way. Babies can't even have fucking honey, my money is on the idiot.
I would love to find out but the man keeps denying my grant applications.
Great band name.
You can use the calories to do anything, even make more babies!
My son is almost 30. Is it too late?
Absolutely not honestly he might be thinking the same about you. Strike before struck upon
No. Harvest his organs /s
That's just extra calories
They just forgot the cheek pouch isn't meant for baby, but i wouldn't blame them, you're not you when you're panicking.
Mama hamster ain't letting no predators have all those nutrients.
Depriving the enemy of food so they are too weak to fight is a good tactic.
Hamsters out there reading Sun Tzu?
It’s funny how The Art of War is just a senior NCO (Sun Tzu) telling a bunch of idiot hereditary officers how to not lose wars with extremely basic advice because he’d seen what had happened if they didn’t have that
It's important to cut off supply lines, true.
What a grand epiphany, hamsters are Russia in the winter.
I listened to a lecture recently on the devouring mother archetype.
Hamsters are cannibals.
It’s weird, I know, because they’re so cute. They are though,
if the baby is gonna die either way, then you might as well get that valuable protein back
