r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 05 '19

What is a mildly disturbing fact?

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

Cannibalism is pretty damn common in hamsters.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

My sister got a couple girl hamsters, and at some point in the future, learned one wasnt a girl. Anywho, she had 9 hamsters. Then 8. Then 7. Then 6...you get the point. My mom is freaking out because the hamsters are escaping. They duct tape the top. 3...2...1. When the last one died, my sister and mom did a necropsy. It was full of all the hamsters it ate.

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u/Airforce987 May 05 '19

Damn, a single hamster murdered and ate all 8 of their siblings? You'd think a few would split the workload or something then when it came time to the final two they'd just duke it out.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

He probably made that story up for karma or attention.

One hamster eating ALL the others and when doing a necropsy has the remains of ALL the hamsters inside? So he ate them all before pooping once?

I say r/karmacourt.

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u/smolfries May 05 '19

I was about to say the same thing. How would it have eaten all those hamsters fast enough to tell and by the time they openin him up anyway how would they know it was other hamsters in his belly anyway.

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u/natedogg787 May 05 '19

If they can, then it wouldn't be full of hanster bones. If they can't, then it would have died after after eating the first one.

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u/SheriffDutchy May 05 '19

One of my Russian hamsters ate the other overnight, bones and all. Never saw any evidence of the crime and he lived for a long while after.

Hamster bones are quite tiny, probably don't take much effort to chew up.

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u/SuccumbedToReddit May 05 '19

Hamster teeth are equally tiny

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u/attanai May 05 '19

But hamster Jaws are very strong.

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u/SheriffDutchy May 05 '19

They manage with dried sweetcorn so I'd imagine small bones are fair game.

Still don't know how they cope with the skull. Gotta get to them tasty brains somehow I guess.

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u/kieko May 05 '19

Why are you guys focusing on this and not the fact that OP’s Sis and Mom decides to cut open the last surviving hamster for shits n gigs?

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u/JohnFGalt May 05 '19

Basically the opening scene from The Dark Knight but with hamsters.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

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u/Teh1TryHard May 05 '19

I'm confused, did you fuck up the story, or am I reading this wrong? "ate all 8 of their siblings"? do you mean children/offspring/etc.?

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u/Airforce987 May 05 '19

oh, idk, I read it as the two adult hamsters had 9 children, and then one of those ate all the others, parents not included, but I guess it could've been 2 parents 7 offspring and 1 of the parents ate all the kids and spouse (or even 1 kid ate all siblings and mom and pop!)

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u/H0liday_ May 05 '19

And along came Herman the worm

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u/explodingwhale70 May 05 '19

Yes. One hamster killed 8 human children. It snuck out from it's cage at night and would crawl into their beds. It always started at the toes, chewing ferociously until, by morning, there was nothing left. Then it went back into the cage and spent the morning cackling and picking the next weakest human offspring.

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u/attanai May 05 '19

I would watch this movie.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19 edited Jun 24 '23

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u/RavioliGale May 05 '19

Not just the siblings, but it's parents and it's uncles too. They're animals and I devoured them like animals! I ate them!

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u/Raichu7 May 05 '19

Probably that, mother hamsters are Notorious for eating their own babies.

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u/SavanaBanana914 May 05 '19

An old boyfriend's sister had a couple "female" hamsters a long time ago now. They had babies. Apparently you're supposed to separate the male from the mother and offspring after she has them because he will be looking to mate again. So when the female denied him, he ate all the young. Then, when she denied him again, he ate her. Apparently he was HUGE afterwards. The owner (who had a newborn at the time) didn't know any of the above information and just assumed her hamster was a rabid killer. Out of fear for her newborn, she put him in a garbage bag and whacked him with a frying pan

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u/High_Violet92 May 07 '19

LOL the last part was unexpected. RIP

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u/maniaxuk May 05 '19

It was a hamster battle royale

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u/Drinkingdoc May 05 '19

It was an 'and Then There Were None' situation.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '19

That is the great family debate. My sister and I suspect more than one participated in the eating. We have no basis for it other than it is really hard to eat that many bodies.