Forget the pet-shop fluffball on a squeaky wheel. Europe’s wild hamsters are out in Vienna’s graveyards stuffing their faces, throwing hands, and living like tiny cemetery goblins.
Not a Biologist shares wildlife filmmaker Yaz Ellis’ look at the surprisingly dramatic lives of wild hamsters in Vienna’s cemeteries. These are not decorative desk rodents. They fight, forage at dusk, cram their cheek pouches like biological tote bags, and turn graveyard lawns into a tiny rodent battlefield.
Viennese graveyard hamsters would kick Alvin, Simon, and Theodore in the nuts.
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