Can Gerbils Live Alone?

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ATTRIBUTION:
🎬 Wildlife Impulse, Wild Mongolia: Small wildlife of the steppe - gerbils in the wild & steppe polecat (3/4), YouTube, July 7 2019. Available at: https://bit.ly/3KOsU3C
🎥 Clips from Flushed Away (2006), produced by DreamWorks Animation
🎥 Clips from The Simpsons (1989), produced by Gracie Films and 20th Television
🎥 Clips from Adventure Time (2007), produced by Cartoon Network
📚 UFAW, Companion Animal Care and Welfare, Wiley Blackwell publishing, 2012, available at: https://bit.ly/3UnYjgy (affiliate link)
📑 “Pair formation in the Mongolian gerbil”, 1984, Ågren, G. Available at: https://bit.ly/3Us8H71
📑 “The effects of individual housing on ‘anxious’ behaviour in male and female gerbils”, 2007, Starkey, N.J. et al.. Available at: https://bit.ly/3ZQiDsc
📑 “Parallels between pairbond disruption in gerbils and human depression”, 1997, Starkey, NJ and Hendrie, CA. Available at: https://bit.ly/3ZPw7Ew
📑 “The social life of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)”, 2020, Schweinfurth, M. Available at: https://elifesciences.org/articles/54020
📑 “Intra-family aggression and offspring expulsion in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) under restricted environments”, 2005, Scheibler, E. et al.. Available at: https://bit.ly/3mrpkDd
📑 “Social categories in families of Mongolian gerbils”, 2004, Scheibler, E. et al.. Available at: https://bit.ly/3KoJjKT
🖼️ Baby Gerbils, Wikimedia Commons, available at: https://bit.ly/3ZXdGhp
🖼️ A gerbil family, Wikimedia Commons, available at: https://bit.ly/3Kx5eQi
🖼️ Mongolische Wuestenrennmaus, Wikimedia Commons, available at: https://bit.ly/3mubhga
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