Apollo is a one-year-old male Syrian hamster who loves to nibble on sunflower seeds, pine nuts and freeze-dried tofu.

Animal care technicians at Georgia State University observed a series of peracute deaths in a colony of 210 Syrian hamsters. Thirty-five animals residing in three animal rooms (two rooms in one ...

She added there are a number of hamster species, but the most common ones are the Syrian and Russian Dwarf ... kept solitary as they do not tend to get along with other hamsters," Childs said.