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Habitrail is a brand name for a hamster cage made by the Hagen corporation. It is a series of translucent plastic tubes and "houses" for use in home terrariums , designed specially for hamsters . The design of the Habitrail is modular and can be configured however the owner likes, as well as disassembled for cleaning.
A hamster cage is an enclosure designed to house one hamster. It is recommended that hamster cages are at least 5000cm² (775 in of floor space) for dwarf hamster except Roborovski and 6000cm² for syrian and Roborovski, although there is evidence that hamsters experience less stress if housed in larger cages. [ 1 ]
Trap nets used to trap birds (tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis); 14th century Animal trapping , or simply trapping or ginning , is the use of a device to remotely catch and often kill an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes, including for meat , fur / feathers , sport hunting , pest control , and wildlife management .
Two mantraps (one a "humane" type) and a spring gun. A mantrap is a mechanical physical security device for catching poachers, art thieves and other trespassers. [1] [unreliable source?] They have taken many forms, the most usual being similar to a large foothold trap, the steel springs being armed with teeth which meet in the victim's leg. In ...
In 1991, following extensive pressure from the anti-fur lobby, the European Union (EU) passed Regulation 3254/91, which bans the import of wild fur products derived from 13 species into the EU from any country, unless the use of the leghold trap is prohibited in said country, or trapping methods used in that country meet internationally agreed humane trapping standards.
A rat cage trap is a metal cage box-shaped device that is designed primarily to catch rats without killing them. Food bait (not poisoned) is put in the cage trap. When an animal enters the cage and moves toward the bait, the mechanism triggers and closes a door over the entry point.
Size comparison between a rat trap (above) and a mousetrap (below). Similar ranges of traps are sized for to trap other animal species; for example, rat traps are larger than mousetraps, and squirrel traps are larger still. A squirrel trap is a metal box-shaped device that is designed to catch squirrels and other similarly sized animals.
The gun-powered mouse trap proved inferior to spring-powered mousetraps descending from William C. Hooker's 1894 patent. However, the 1882 patent has continued to draw interest–including efforts to reconstruct a version of it–due to its unconventional design. [4]