The main differences between third-line hamsters, scientifically known as Gakalia hamsters, and silver fox hamsters and pudding hamsters are as follows:

1. Morphological characteristics

1. Pudding Rat: The body color of pudding rat is yellow, which looks like pudding, so it is called pudding rat. It was bred in Japan. Pudding rats with orange or gold stripes on their backs are called yellow puddings, and those with milky white fur are called white puddings.

2. Silver fox hamsters: They are divided into silver foxes with wild color genes, which have more obvious black stripes on their backs, and silver foxes with purple hamster genes, which have less obvious stripes on their backs, or even completely white. If silver foxes mate directly with silver foxes, the reproduction rate is extremely low.

3. Jakalia hamster: The skull is narrow and long, the brain is round, and the back and abdomen are slightly flat. The tail and limbs are short. The fur on the back of the body is grey-brown, with an obvious brown-black vertical stripe in the center of the back. There is a clear boundary between the dorsal and ventral side of the body, which is wavy. The palms and soles of the four legs are densely covered with white hair, and the palm pads are invisible. Inhabits dry grasslands and desert steppes.

2. Different living habits

1. Pudding rats: Pudding rats have a very gentle personality, are highly interactive with people, and are easy to take care of; they are highly interactive with people; It is a nocturnal animal, so it sleeps during the day and only gets up at night to look for food and move around. So if it is sleeping during the day, please do not disturb its sleep.

2. Silver fox hamster: It has a strong sense of territory; its food habit is omnivorous; mating time is available all year round.

3. Jakalia hamster: active at night, coming out of the burrow after dusk, and stopping ground activities before sunrise. The activity is most frequent in the evening and at dawn. They often move along a certain route and have a small range of activities. It is timid by nature and will quickly run into the bushes to hide when disturbed. It has strong cold tolerance and can still be seen burrowing in the evening in winter. The cave is shallow and has a simple structure. Often built on the slopes of sand dunes, the tunnels and nest chambers are shallow from the ground. It has the habit of blocking the entrance of the hole after entering it.

3. Different families and genera

1. Pudding hamster: The short-eared hamster of the Hamster family, Hamsteridae, is a pudding hamster.

2. Silver fox hamster: Short-eared hamster of the hamster family of the family Muridae is a species of hamster.

3. Jakalia hamster: a genus of hairy-footed mouse in the family Hamsteridae.

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