Eleanor Spicer Rice
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first heard Sep 2026
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designed, I guess they're not built for living very long.
That's why they have lots of babies and stuff.
You know, gerbils are kinda wild too though, because
They dig in the wild in Mongolia and China and Russia, they live in these tunnels.
And at the bottom of the tunnels they have all these chambers.
And if their parents have dug them enough chambers and everything, they'll just live with their parents forever.
And they have all these escape holes because they're also a prey item.
But
stores and people who breed gerbils, they don't give them tunnels.
And so what the researchers have found out is if a gerbil is born into a life where there's a tunnel when they're babies,
They don't dig.
Ever they're fine.
Even if you just stick them on a flat bottom box for the rest of their lives, they don't dig because they feel comfortable, because there's an imprinting phase of safety.
When they're young.
But if they are born into a place where there are no tunnels, they will dig compulsively for the rest of their lives.
So a lot of people who have durables don't like to be kept up by them because they sit around all night long and they dig nonstop for hours and hours and hours and hours.
They'll never stop.
You can give them tunnels forever and they will keep digging tunnels.
There's so many pets that people keep that I'm amazed that they bond with.
Like, for example, you know, things like bearded dragons.
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