Hi all,
I am one of these people who doesn't write all that much but is always
reading the mails here.
There is something that my male gerbils do, that they have always done, so
it is nothing new but my curiosity finally got the better of me!
When they are chewing the bars of the cage, they suddenly stop and freeze,
and they can remain dead still for up to a minute sometimes.
At first I thought it was because maybe I had startled them, and it was a
self-defense mechanism, ie. play dead to prey, but they can do it even when
I don't move.
Is it like the behaviour where gerbils dig in their cage corners 'cause
they don't burrow or is it maybe similar to the seizures they can have when
they become over excited?
Andreana
Murray
Seth
Theo
Taylie
Cairina
