Guinea pigs eat cucumber and caring friend Морские свинки Морські свинки
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Guinea pigs were domesticated in 5 millennium BC. e. tribes of the Andes in South America (the territory of modern southern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia) for human consumption [4], after a few thousand years after the domestication of camelids in South America. [5] The statues dating from the period from 500 BC. e. before 500 BC. e., depicting the guinea pigs were found during archaeological excavations in Peru and Ecuador [6]. People worshiped the Mochica culture guinea pigs and portrayed them on objects of art. [7] From 1200 until the Spanish conquest in 1532 was carried out breeding work, which allowed to bring a lot of breeds of guinea pigs, some of which are the foundations for the modern home guinea pigs [8].
The first news of the conquest of Colombia [edit | edit wiki text]
Important information about the existence in Colombia of one of the species of the genus guinea pigs - an animal called cori (word, perhaps Arawak (Antillean) origin) - are in the Juan de San Martin report royal officials and Antonio de Lebrija, take a personal part in the campaign conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada on the territory of Colombia (July 1539):