Talk:Mongolian gerbil

message: I've often observed gerbils creating their own bedding from any scrap paper one has lying around. Perhaps this should be included in the 'bedding' section... as it's just hilarious to watch. You can put a full-sized sheet of construction paper in and it'll become bedding in a few minutes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.73.48.43 (talk • contribs).
:We send to the gerbil cage a lot of the cardboard that would otherwise hit the recycle bin. The gerbils reduce it to chips in minutes, have a great time doing it, and vastly reduce the volume of the waste. And yes, for bedding, we send them paper of various types and they rapidly convert it to exactly what they want to stuff into their house as bedding.
:Atlant 01:42, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Hi what a nice article. I hope you dont ,mind but I did edit two things- first, I have been using pine for years. It does NOT have any added scents. A few years ago- this was not the case- but now all pine wood is kiln dried and dust extracted. The kiln drying dries up the oils that used to cause liver and resp damage.Second, I added a not about gerbils getting dust baths. They really enjoy this, and it is great fun to watch.  Hope you dont mind:)
George Staffa says:
I always used cedar chips, two to three inches deep, in a fish tank to contain it and to give them a wall they could not chew at andd break their teeth on.  Then I would give them an old sock (anything with knapp--eg. no stretch nylon, but fuzzy orlon is fine).  They would chew all of it to shreds and threads and mix it together into a fluffy matrix through which they could tunnel.  It was a hoot!  It was also neat to see them try to tunnel through the glass.  With nothing else in the tank they would dig at the corners.  But give them a tomato paste can with the ends cut out, and inner edges buffed with emery cloth, and voila! instant hole, which they would place, end flat to the glass, and dig furriously from inside of.
George Staffa (talk) 17:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great article 

message: There's a boken link to a file Saffron Female 10-22-05.jpg... Does anyone know where this has gone and why? It's not listed in the deletion logs either of English Wikipedia or of Commons. Andrewa (talk) 19:41, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
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message: There was a parallel page to this one just called "Gerbil", which was confusingly also serving as the page for Gerbillinae.  I have tried to sort this all out.  Below is material that was on the talk page for "Gerbil" (which I have now reduced to a redirect to this page). seglea (talk) 14:50, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
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message: I found also the writing "gerbel". "Gerbel" is also a surename, it seems with german origin. --Franz (Fg68at) de:Talk 19:58, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "gerbel" 

message: User Ryanfuller has changed "gerbil" throughout this article to the word "Garble". This is wrong. Please change it back.
Thanks :)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.216.33.107 (talk) 20:06, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed name 

message: Lifespan might be a good fact to add to the article. Givethemahug (talk) 17:13, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  lifespan? 

message: : Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 20:39, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 May 2018 

message: Recent work has shown that the size of the auditory (tympanic) bulla in gerbil species appears to be a desert adaptation and is correlated with aridity, even after correcting for the evolutionary relationships among gerbils species; gerbils living in more arid environments appear to have larger bullae.Biologist87657 (talk) 20:03, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Morphological adaptations 

message: Recent work has shown that the size of the auditory (tympanic) bulla in gerbil species appears to be a desert adaptation and is correlated with aridity, even after correcting for the evolutionary relationships among gerbils species; gerbils living in more arid environments appear to have larger bullae.Biologist87657 (talk) 16:11, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Morphological adaptations 

message: I'm a little concerned about the mating section because it describes behaviour I don't recall seeing in my gerbils and the reference link is dead. It states, "the female will squeak and make flick motions to get the male off her." I certainly didn't see that in one of my two breeding pairs. The animals were fully mature before they were introduced. In my other pair the female was younger, and I got the impression she didn't like it so much as the first female seemed to. She may have squeaked and flicked the first time, but I didn't see this behaviour in later matings. In short, I'm questioning the quality of the cited research and have no way to check it because the link is dead. eekee (talk) 15:04, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerned about the Mating section 

message: This is the end of the material transferred from the Talk page of the redundant "Gerbil" page. seglea (talk) 14:50, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
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message: I've now done what I can to sort out the Gerbillinae/Gerbil/Mongolian gerbil page muddle.  There is probably still some redundancy on this page as a result of merging two pages that had developed in parallel, though I have done my best to get rid of it.  At least the structure makes sense now.  There are probably a whole lot of redirects that could do with eliminating, but I don't have time to attack that problem at the moment. seglea (talk) 14:54, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Tidy-up "completed"

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