For the most part, Geoff Downes has been a constant member of this band, leading them through four different decades. The original (and classic) lineup was Downes, John Wetton, Steve Howe and Carl Palmer and this lineup reunited in 2006.
Like other rodents, hamsters are highly motivated to run in wheels. Hamster wheels or running wheel are exercise devices used primarily by hamsters and other rodents, but also by other cursorial animals when given the opportunity. Most of these devices consist of a runged or ridged wheel held on a stand by a single or pair of stub axles. Hamster wheels allow rodents to run even when their space is confined. The earliest dated use of the term âhamster wheelâ, located by the Oxford English Dictionary, is in a 1949 newspaper advertisement.
The name hamster is a loanword from the German, which itself derives from earlier Old High German hamustro. It is possibly related to Old Russian chomÄstrÇ, which is either a blend of the root of Russian khomiak hamster and a Baltic word (cf.Lithuanian staras hamster) or of Persian origin (cf.n the wild, hamsters are crepuscular and remain underground during the day to avoid being caught by predators. They feed primarily on seeds, fruits, and vegetation, and will occasionally eat burrowing insects. They have elongated cheek pouches extending to their shoulders in which they carry food back to their burrows.