Re: Curious
Perhaps another issue in hamsters is that captive hams come from a very small gene pool. Although so do humans! As Kryl has said defective mutations won't survive in the wild so animals who have to survive tend to conform to those most able to survive. Mutations however are what feed evolution - a lion that can run faster will catch more prey. So that gene line will be more successful. And then the zebra that can out run a lion will survive and pass on its fast gene.
Its interesting seeing how different European hams are compared to Syrians - for some reason it was advantageous to be bigger and more aggressive in Europe!?
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