What is a hamster thinking?
Ran eleven kilometres last night. Arrived nowhere.
The distance is real. A Syrian hamster covers several kilometres a night on a wheel, and wild hamsters given a wheel outdoors use it voluntarily - so the running is something they want to do, not a symptom of the cage.
In the wild that distance is foraging range. A hamster's night is spent covering ground and filling cheek pouches; the wheel gives the same behaviour nowhere to arrive.
Try it on a real one
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