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candyman337@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lowleekun@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Random fact: Rats are so god damn cute, i would have one if they had a reasonable life expectancy.

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  • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had one as a kid, they’re great pets. If you ever do get one, you should get more than one. They’re actually quite social and can get lonely, which I unfortunately found out years after mine had passed.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If I had one, my cat would definitely just eat it.

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• Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Random piece of information: the Japanese call all of them just “Nezumi” 🐁 🐀

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  • candyman337@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well the Japanese need to be more specific because they’re very different.

    I can’t imaging how hard it is to Google specifically rat or specifically mice questions there lmao

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    • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have you heard of grue?

      In any case, the same applies to animals. They may not be linguistucally differentiated in the same way across language boundaries.

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    • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m a native speaker of Mandarin (Chinese), where there’s no rat/mouse distinction either. I know that in English they’re different so I do say rat for big ones and mouse for small ones in English, but otherwise they’re basically the same to me.

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    • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The japanese simply don’t make that distinction and it’s not a problem for them

      Plenty of languages (including my Polish) don’t make a distinction between town and city, and they don’t have problems

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      • candyman337@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I feel like town and city is a little less consequential than to separate species

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      • fading_person@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wait, aren’t town and city the same thing?

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s also a wireless rat.

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• python@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m always so boggled by how people can’t (or don’t care to?) distinguishing between their basic rodent species. Common rats, Mice and hamsters look very very different if you give it even a second of thought. Yet any time I watch clip compilations of rats there are always clips of hamsters and mice (sometimes even chinchillas!!) mixed in there.

  So, for anyone who wants to learn some basics on how to distinguish them:

  rats

  picture of a rat Wikipedia
  The biggest tell is that they can get pretty big. A huge (larger than your hand) rodent that doesn’t look very overweight will almost always be a rat. The overweight ones will probably be rats too, people tend to overfeed their rats. Their face shape tends to be more square and blunt than in mice, especially when you look at them from the side.

  mice

  picture of a mouse There are a lot of very different Mice species (especially when looking at wild mice) but if you had to know just one it should be the Fancy Mouse. It’s not really a species, just the term for mice that have been selectively bred for domestication, so they can look vastly different in color and fur texture, but the overall body shape is somewhat consistent.
  Generally, mice stay fairly small (generally smaller than your hand) and their head to body ratio is somewhat different compared to rats (I’m actually not sure what exactly looks different, maybe less neck? It just looks different when you look at them side by side)
  Their ears will also be bigger than rat ears (though large-eared “Dumbo” variations are a thing for both mice and Rats): Picture 1 is a Dumbo Mouse, Picture 2 is a (young) dumbo rat:
  Dumbo mouseDumbo rat

  hamster

  There are two variations of hamster you should generally know: the larger Syrian Hamster or Golden Hamster and the Dwarf hamster , which isn’t a species but more of a catch-all term. In captivity, a Dwarf hamster is usually going to be a Campbell, Roborovski or Djungarian Hamster (or a mix thereof).
  Syrian hamster
  Syrian hamsters are larger than dwarf hamsters and Mice, but usually smaller than rats (some very fat hamsters exist of course). They only have a very short stubby tail and a round face. Very round if their cheek pouches are full.
  Syrian hamsters are strictly solitary and extremely territorial, you should never keep more than one in one cage (optimally, you wouldn’t even have more than one in your house). They will kill and eat each other on sight. Don’t let anyone tell you that “it works for their hamsters”, it does not. Dwarf hamsters
  Dwarf hamsters are way smaller than Syrian hamsters and about as large as a mouse (depending on the species ofc). They’re pretty recognizable because they’re very round. Usually they don’t have a tail either, with some species being an exception and having a slightly longer stub.
  The biggest difference to Syrian hamsters is that Dwarf hamsters are very social!! Generally, you should never keep them alone, as they bond to each other and build social hierarchies. Solitary Dwarf hamsters can die from the stress of loneliness. It’s sometimes even recommended to keep your groups number even so that so hamster is left out when every one else bonds as a pair.
  Keeping a solitary Dwarf hamster is less dangerous than keeping a pair of Syrian hamster though. Some people say that they can make it work by interacting a lot with the dwarf hamster so that they don’t get lonely. I don’t really know if that’s scientifically proven though.

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  Here are some more common pet rodents you might want to know about:
  Chinchilla
  Chinchillas: Big boys, need a lot of space to run around and sand to bathe in.
  Gerbil
  Gerbils: About as large as Syrian Hamsters but usually pretty lean looking. You can recognize them from the fact that their tail is covered in fur. Guinea Pig
  Guinea Pig: You might confuse them with hamsters from a photo, but they are way way larger and more square, especially in their face scape. They’re also pretty vocal, so you’ll hear them coming lol.

  check your knowledge

  Here’s images of rodents, what are they? image 1
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  image 1: Rat
  image 2: Beaver
  image 3: Syrian hamster
  image 4: Fancy Mouse
  image 5: Fancy Mice image 6: Trick question, they’re African Soft Furred Rats, a species of mouse
  image 7: Guinea Pig
  image 8: Rat
  image 9: Dwarf Hamsters (Roborovski, I think?)
  image 10: A young Dumbo Rat
  

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