You can drop a mouse down a mineshaft and it can survive the landing, but a skyscraper has cross winds, which could easily get it moving laterally too fast to survive. A hamster is considerably larger than a mouse though, and just because a mouse could survive doesnt mean a hamster would.

Hamsters are way heavier, around 150g, unless we're talking pups or dwarf breeds. That's around 6 - 10 times the weight of a mouse.

And they are a more compact shape with stubby legs and tails, which I imagine has negative implications for terminal velocity.

Our hamster died from a 50 cm fall. I don't think they are as durable as mice

i had a hamster when i was a kid it was put inside a glass aquarium. my lil bro took it to our granma house couple blocks away. idk how but he lost his grip and fell to the ground. the tank glass shattered and the hamster died on the spot. im sure its not a height thing and more of a shock and stress thing

Hamsters will die from looking at them wrong. I also know three childhood friends who had hamsters that died from it just walking off the bed

They are very fragile

Mark Rober's squirrel videos also talked about it a lot.

A wise man once said:

You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes

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Oh! The hamster mom. Not your mom.

Ok, that's a bit less horrifying.

I had that parachute action man, and I remember chucking him down a flight of stairs. Shitty, shitty parachute. The doll itself was surprisingly well made (I guess it was drop tested a lot during production?) but weighed a ton and the parachute was hilariously too small for it

We had one pet rat then my mom let me get another one of the opposite sex. Anyways we had really bad rat infestation before we sold that house.

😳

I witnessed the other side of that phenomenon. The babies ate the mom.

Yeah rodents have interesting behavior like that. They have absolutely no qualms eating a friend or their own offspring if they need the resources.

I once had two mice. The next morning, I still had two mice, but one of them was missing its head.

Rats are great kid pets. But as any pet should be primarily be taken care off by adults, not the kids themselves

How else are they going to learn about cannibalism?