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-History of Chinchilla-
-History of the Chinchillas The chinchilla although outwardly it presents a certain resemblance with the rabbit, it is included in another zoological order: it belongs to the order of the rodents while the rabbit to the order of the lagomorfos. Inside the mammals placentarios, the order of the rodents is since the widest he/she understands 3 subórdenes, 32 families, 352 goods and more than 1.700 species.
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The chinchilla is originate of America of the south (chinchilla laniger, of the mountain range of you Walk them; Chinchilla brevicaudata, of Bolivia), and you/he/she is distributed by the mountainous system. He/she even also lives to 5000 Chile, Argentina, Peru. In the plateaus and mountains the difference of temperature can be by day 40 ºC and at night -10 ºC but the thick skin of the chinchilla the proteje of these abrupt changes of temperature.
In this map the areas of distribution of the chinchilla laniger and the chinchilla brevicaudate are shown.
The chinchilla was discovered by the Spaniards in the year 1524.
The name of ‘chinchilla ' put it the Spanish settlers, this name derives of an indigenous tribe of the Peru, the chinchas.
As the skins they had great success in the market, this produced the capture of many copies and I take the species on the edge of extinction. In the year 1910 the South American countries adopted measures to regulate the hunt.
This animal you this making more and more and more popular among the lovers of the company animals.
It is a very amusing animal and it can end up being a perfect company animal.
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