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Long-tailed Chinchilla — printable fact sheet
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Long-tailed Chinchilla
Chinchilla lanigera
Chinchilla lanigera of the Chilean Andes has the densest fur of any land mammal: instead of one hair per follicle, as in humans, a chinchilla grows 50 to 80 or more hairs from a single follicle, producing a pelt of roughly 20,000 hairs per square centimetre. That density is an a…
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- Wild populations of Long-tailed Chinchillas survive in only a handful of small, isolated colonies in Chile, making them one of the rarest mammals in the world.
- Chinchillas cannot sweat and have no ability to shed heat through the skin, so a pet kept above about 25 C can overheat and die - their whole physiology assumes an Andean climate. They can jump nearly 2 m vertically from a standing start. Their teeth, like all their incisors and cheek teeth, grow continuously and are naturally orange-yellow; white teeth in a chinchilla are a sign of illness.
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