Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Hamsters blink their eyes to clean them of any foreign particles such as dust. However, unlike human beings, they blink their eyes independently of each other. They only blink one eye at a time to stay alert of predators.
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56 Comments
Denise Bruce
That could be called winking!
cgrhm
interesting. I have dry eye and only blink one eye at a time for the same reason. I'm in solidarity with hampsters!
cgrhm
Diana Massey-Gray, but some people do.
lady draggon
Another with NO information for the answer. There should be a limit of how much is required to be accepted because this isn't it!! Enough is enough people!!
Albert
The cruse of true has struck again.
Player
Seen my pet rats do similar. I called it winky blink.
Grtr
I've never seen a hamster blink
Diana Massey-Gray
Something I didn't need to know or had an interest in.
Martha Frantz Burger
I don’t think it’s always true but the answer is definitely always the ones that seems the most unlikely.
Mark Therrien
Lol lol WINKY BLINKY
erik hughes
Did anyone else notice that the pic under this question was of a guinea pig, NOT a hamster?
Don Racette
Judith Parkinson Stop HORSING around.
dlh
Good guess.
Diane Lynn Kinsman
Got it
dsneed
Had some. Never studied it.
Joanne Serin
Now that was cute, even if it was T-F.