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Old 12-09-2020, 01:48 PM   #1
Savannagh
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Default Good hamster care in the media

This week's episode of The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry (Radio 4 and a podcast version) was about seeing how many hamsters running on their wheels would be needed to power London (spoiler: it's a lot). Having established how many hamsters it would require, they then looked at how much space they would take up. They considered one hamster to take up the space of... a Hamster Heaven! Someone on the show did their research.

I am less sure about their estimate that hamsters were awake for 16 hours of the day. I know sometimes they can be quiet or not visible, but that seems like a lot.

(Just in case anyone is worried, the whole thing was tongue-in-cheek and they did also discuss whether horses, cheetahs or humans would be any better at generating electricity by running in wheels)
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Old 12-11-2020, 01:31 PM   #2
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I am impressed. Refreshing to hear that a hamster needs the space of Hamster Heaven.

I wonder if the producer is a member here.......
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Old 12-11-2020, 05:33 PM   #3
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Do tell how many hamsters it would take!
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Old 12-12-2020, 03:12 AM   #4
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It was 9 billion hamsters running at any one time!

This is the episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000q3pn
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