Blond Guinea Pig refuses to Eat Carrot
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Currently the Cute Guinea pig plays a role both pet, sold as such in many Western countries mainly as USA, France, England and Italy, both as food, served baked, fried or grilled, in many countries, mainly South American as Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. The Cute Guinea pig has become a synonym for "laboratory animal". In the common lexicon, in fact, it indicates by extension as a Cute Guinea pig any subject, even human experiment. In any case, despite this common sense, to the XXI century the Cute Guinea pig is used in research much less than other rodents such as mice and rats, in their innumerable strains and genetic changes exist, as far as the remains an important model organism, at least from the point of view historical and some areas of current research.
In addition, it was believed that the Cute Guinea pigs had the power to bring out evil spirits from people who are sick, during traditional healing rituals. To date, the breeding of Cute Guinea pigs is widespread among rural populations of countries Andean. Cute Guinea pigs were called quwi in languages Quechua and cuy (plural cuyes ) in Spanish, in both cases attracting so onomatopoeic to their more frequent (a cuiii extended). Traders Dutch and British took the Cute Guinea pigs in Europe, where it quickly became popular as exotic pets.
The common term in the English language is Cute Guinea pig, also taken into consideration by the Dutch guinees biggetje. The origin of the term Guinea is not easily explained. One theory associates it to a hypothetical stage in the process of transport of the animals at the current Guinea, in Africa. Others believe that it is nothing more than a distortion of Guiana, alleged area of origin of the animals. One last idea, certainly to be excluded, argues that the term derives from Guinea (in English Guinea ), an old English coin worth 21 shillings, which would correspond to the average price of each animal: this hypothesis is to be discarded, since that Guinea would be put into circulation only in 1663, more than a century after the first description of the Cute Guinea pigs by the naturalist Swiss Konrad Gesner, which occurred in 1554.
Cute Guinea pigs are animals of medium size in the order of rodents, since males grow to a weight of 1250 g and measuring 20 cm are placed in between the few grams of the minutes, as the harvest mouse and 70 kg of capybaras. They live on average between four and eight years. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the longest running Cute Guinea pig lived for 15 years. These are social animals, living in small groups of females, males and children.
In their wild, Cute Guinea pigs live in regions rich plains of grass, occupying an ecological niche similar to that of common livestock. They move in small groups, feeding on grass and other small shrubs. They are animals that prefer the twilight: the more hours of activity, in fact, are at sunrise and sunset, when decreases the risk of being caught by predators. If you are in danger, they are able to run at blazing speeds. Cute Guinea pigs, however, have developed different rhythms of life have long periods of activity during the 24 hours of the day, interspersed with shorter periods of sleep.
Unlike other rodents such as mice, the rats or squirrels, mice are not still very athletic. Their habitat original, in fact, did not require specific motor skills such as climbing trees or jumping into the void of the typical squirrels. In any case, the Cute Guinea pigs can jump small obstacles with ease. When excited, Cute Guinea pigs are then used to do small jumps high repeated: this attitude, also accompanied by a very strong way, was defined popcorning, with reference to the typical crackle of popcorn.
The Cute Guinea pig is in the popular imagination of some languages the animal laboratory par excellence. This idea persists today despite the use of Cute Guinea pig in modern scientific research is very small.
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