On Electrolite, Teresa Nielsen Hayden has published a 9-year retrospective of BBC News's best reporting on hamsters, from "Firefighters rescue hamster with head stuck in cage," to "Hamster in plastic exercise ball found rolling along the M6 motorway at Spaghetti Junction in Birmingham" to "Study finds hamsters navigate by dead reckoning; have excellent sense of direction."
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