FROM AN AGROPHILE TO A SYNURBIST: HOW THE COMMON HAMSTER (&lt;i&gt;CRICETUS CRICETUS&lt;/i&gt;) IS SETTLING INTO THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Journal: Зоологический журнал
Year: 2023

In this review, using our own and published data, we discuss the processes that occur in populations of small mammals when they adapt to and master the urban environment, using the common hamster as an example. Originally, the common hamster was apparently associated with the forest-steppe zone, but with the development of agriculture, it became an agrophile, populating the outskirts of fields, which provided it with a good food base throughout the year. Changes in farming culture (fragmentary f