Jews get credit for the hamster
Submitted by koppie on Mon, 05/01/2006 - 01:29
No kidding. The first domestic hamsters were bred by a zoology professor at the University of Jerusalem in the 1930's. All Golden Hamsters (a.k.a. Syrian Hamsters) in Europe are descended from the initial batch found by this professor in the Syrian desert.
Check it out:Â Golden Hamster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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