Guinea Pigs or Hamsters?

People usually aren't a hamster person for long. I had this friend who had a hamster for like less than two weeks. It died when and I don't know why they had a bucket on their living room floor. But the thing was like half under the bucket just peeking out poking out under the bucket. Why would a hamster even get into that position? That's like thriving with your neck on the steering wheel though. What a nice thing for a hamster to do is like let me just set up my neck on the edge of this bucket. He doesn't know. That is upside down. Yeah, guinea pigs are more like like a little capybara