Saturday, January 2, 2010

Chinchilladale

My Neighbor Totoro, its scientific name South American chinchilla belongs to MAMMALIA Rodentia Suborder porcupine American chinchilla related species because of its creative Hayao Miyazaki movies TOTORO resembles the cartoon chinchillas, it was renamed after people called "My Neighbor Totoro" .

My Neighbor Totoro rodents are mammals, porcupines suborder South America bunny Branch, and many people mentioned the mouse thought of a mouse, in fact it and the rats are completely different. The main difference is: rats are omnivorous animals, and My Neighbor Totoro is a vegetarian, and their digestive system different. Mouse is a two-ovulation control ovulation and the My Neighbor Totoro is a single tube, so rodents (including hamsters) can be litter every 20 days for Health and My Neighbor Totoro Aberdeen litter 1-2 times a year only, and only 1-2 per litter of probability of 80%.

My Neighbor Totoro originated in South America's Andes Mountains, elevation 1600 feet of the cave and crevice that is, its habitat land. Local dry weather, day and night temperatures vary very greatly, chinchillas usually rely on some tropical plants (such as bark, roots, cacti)'s living, so its great vitality to China's environment is also adapted. The main purpose of their fur is warm and prevent moisture loss. However, in the sixteenth century, when Europeans discovered this little creature's fur is so soft, even, then a large number of hunting Totoro. The early nineteenth century, chinchillas have been the edge of extinction. Credit goes to an American MFChapman later brought back to California and 11 in the local breeding success, you have a chance today, I kept such a cute little animals.

In biology, they are sui generis chinchilladale species.

Chinchilladale is divided into the following categories:

1) Short-tailed My Neighbor Totoro (Chinchillachinchillaboliviana) - the wild is almost extinct.

2) The Emperor My Neighbor Totoro (KingChinchilla) - a kind of a 40cm-long giant chinchilla, also known as realchinchilla, extinct for hundreds of years ago. Remaining specimens are placed in one of the Senckenberg Museum in Germany.

3) Long-tailed My Neighbor Totoro (ChinchillaLanigera) - used for fur, and pets; bred out of most of My Neighbor Totoro earners belong to this category, the wild have almost disappeared. All of the wild chinchilla originating in South America, all belong to a protected species, but can be legally imported foreign workers by breeding.

Features

My Neighbor Totoro shape and rabbits and squirrels are very similar, small size and obesity, the head like rabbit, squirrel like tail. Adult chinchillas weighing 430-700 grams, tail length of 10-14 cm. Newborn cub weighs about 50 grams. My Neighbor Totoro, a pair of large, bright eyes, nasal length there are many different lengths of the beard, touch sensitive. Ears large and thin, blunt round. Short forelimbs, there are five toes, strong hind legs, four toes and be good at jumping. My Neighbor Totoro Gray-black hair on the back and sides (along with some other artificial cultivation of the color), abdominal Jiandan to the white hairs evenly distributed. My Neighbor Totoro has the world's most dense fur, each pore 40 ~ 60 fluff, in the kinds of the best the U.S. can escape from the source to reach as many as 80 (cats and dogs every pore is only 1 ~ 3 of hair), but so soft, thick fur also Totoro brings the nightmare is almost extinct.

1 comment:

  1. If its legal to have a Chinchilladale as pet in Australia?

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