Gerbil Knowledge

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1. When breeding gerbils, if you just want ONE litter, what do you do? put the male in the female's cage and take him out right after they've mated put the female in the male's cage and take her out right after they've mated put them together in one cage for a few days put them together in a strange place to mate

2. When should you take the male away from the female when she is pregnant? when the female goes into labor right after they've mated, he will attack the female You don't need to two to three weeks before birth

3. Which sex is more aggressive and likely to escape? Answer: (Male or Female?)

4. Gerbils should ONLY eat gerbil food, grains, seeds, etc.? Answer: (true or false)

5. A gerbil only needs to gnaw on things for the first half a year of its life, because after that, its teeth stop growing. Answer: (true or false)

6. Gerbils are: Pack animals stinky Solitary animals It depends on the gerbil

7. Gerbils are able to learn to do tricks. Answer: (true or false)

8. Gerbils get along best with: a group including a parent figure and the same sex a group with a parent figure and the opposite sex a group with no parent figure and the same sex a group with no parent figure and the opposite sex

9. You can tell a gerbil is male because: of the large testicles protruding from his buttocks the extremely long tail his pointy back end he only makes moves on females

10. It is all right for gerbils and hamsters to cohabitate in the same cage. the only problem is if they are different sexes If they have known each other since babyhood Never! true, they get along just as well as if they were the same species