Today is Hamster day. 10 things you might not know about hamsters:
- Hamsters belong to the family Cricetidae which means they are cousins to voles, Rats, Mice and lemmings. There are 24 species of hamster. Chances are if you have one as a pet it’s a golden or Syrian hamster but the Russian Dwarf Campbell and Roborovski breeds are also popular.
- The word hamster comes from the German word “hamstern,” which means “hoard.” Because hoard is what they do. They store food in cheek pouches, called displostomes. They can store up to their own bodyweight in there, which makes their heads look twice or three times as big.
- They can also fill their cheek pouches with air, so they can float in Water.
- Hamsters have terrible eyesight and use their sense of smell to get around, rubbing their scent glands on things to help them navigate back home.
- They can recognise sounds, including that of their owner’s voice when kept as pets. If a hamster owner uses their pet’s name often enough the hamster might even learn to come when called.
- Hamsters in the wild are solitary and territorial, likely to fight other hamsters to the death. Hence it’s preferable just to keep the one pet one. Even in the mating season a female will throw the male out of her burrow once they’ve done the business.
- Hamsters are banned in Hawaii because should a pet escape it would be easy for it to survive in the climate there and cause damage to crops.
- Their teeth never stop growing, which is why if you keep one, you need to provide hamster chews and things for it to gnaw on.
- Hamsters are coprophagic, that is, they eat their own poo. They do this to make sure they get all the nutrients out of their food.
- Hamster racing is a thing. The hamster athletes are placed in hamster balls, which might be attached to tiny hamster racing cars, and they race down a straight 9 meter (30 ft) course.
Character birthday
Hermione Neale, a teacher at Rathbone Academy. She is also a Viper agent, charged with grooming/recruiting any young people from Viper families at the school. Yasmin Miller was one of these, and it was Neale who arranged for her to change her identity and disappear from public life. She appears in Who’s That Girl? And also briefly in Fire in Her Blood.
Who's That Girl?
Matt Webster lives in a tower block and attends a failing school. He dreams of being a spy like James Bond. Little does he know that he is being watched by someone who can make him into even more than that – a superhero.
His first solo mission is to attend a ball at the Decembrian Embassy and discover who is planning to steal a priceless diamond. While there, he meets the mysterious Lady Antonia du Cane, and is powerfully drawn to her. It soon becomes clear, however, that Lady du Cane is not what she seems. Matt’s quest to discover who she really is almost costs him his career.
A modern day Guy Fawkes gathers a coterie around him with the aim of blowing up Parliament with a nuclear bomb. To achieve this, they need money. Lots of it. Selling the Heart of Decembria Diamond will provide more than enough. All that stands in their way is the Freedom League – but the League is beset by internal disagreements. Can the heroes put their differences aside in time to save the day?
Prime Minister Richard Miller and his wife Fiona grieve for their daughter, Yasmin, who has been missing for three years, and is presumed to be dead. Viper agent Violet Parker could hold the key to what happened to Yasmin, but Violet is accused of giving away the organisation’s secrets. She is to be executed without trial. Will she take her knowledge of what happened to Yasmin with her to her grave?
Fire in her Blood
Sent away to school to get her away from undesirable company, Agnes finds herself homesick and lonely. A brief connection with Jason Warner leads to the teenage crush to end all teenage crushes. Jason is barely aware Agnes exists, but she plans her whole future around him.
It is only when they meet again as adults that the connection becomes mutual; but before it can develop, Jason makes a discovery which rocks his entire world. He needs time alone, away from everyone, including Agnes. When Jason is finally ready to go back to his old life, Agnes has moved on and he cannot find her.
Agnes is now a single parent to the remarkable Seraphina. The Power League want to harness Seraphina's powers for evil before the Freedom League become aware of her. Agnes has no idea her new colleague and friend is a supervillain with his own agenda, and his willingness to babysit is not as innocent as she thinks. As Incendio starts teaching Seraphina to use her powers, the Freedom League intervene. Little do they know that they have found one of their own.
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