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The skin of the holotype specimen is kept at the Natural History Museum in London. [7] A yellow-colored golden hamster. In 1930, Israel Aharoni, a zoologist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, captured a mother hamster and her litter of pups in Aleppo, Syria. The hamsters were bred in Jerusalem as laboratory animals.
Other species of hamsters are known to fill their pouches with air, allowing them to float better while they swim. [7] [8] Cheek pouch prolapse in an anesthetized Russian hamster (Phodopus sp.) The cheek pouches can become infected as a result of an injury caused by a sharp object inserted into them or a fight.
A pouch is present in most, but not all, species. Many marsupials have a permanent bag, whereas in others the pouch develops during gestation, as with the shrew opossum, where the young are hidden only by skin folds or in the fur of the mother. The arrangement of the pouch is variable to allow the offspring to receive maximum protection.
Image credits: an1malpulse #5. Animal campaigners are calling for a ban on the public sale of fireworks after a baby red panda was thought to have died from stress related to the noise.
Instead, they form temporary skin folds (sometimes called "pseudo-pouches") in the mammary region when reproducing. [8] [9] [10] This type of pouch also occurs in echidnas which are monotremes. [11] Pouches have their own microbiota and it changes depending on reproductive stage: anoestrus, pre-oestrus, oestrus/birth, post-birth. [12]
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Skin bottle made of goat leather A leather waterskin from the Judean desert, dating back to 132–135 CE. Depiction of a waterskin bearer in Persepolis. A waterskin is a receptacle used to hold water.