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chinchilla

[chin-chil-uh] / tʃɪnˈtʃɪl ə /


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The costliest felines to insure were the Maine coon, one of the largest house cats, which can be prone to a type of muscle atrophy, and the chinchilla, a popular longhair, Spot Pet Insurance said.

From New York Times Jun. 7, 2024

The scene captured on video is among the findings from an undercover investigation into conditions on Romania’s chinchilla fur farms, carried out last year by the animal welfare charity Humane Society International.

From Seattle Times Sep. 28, 2022

TL:DR: do not lick your chinchilla while you have monkeypox.

From The Verge Aug. 5, 2022

In this case, the wild- type allele is dominant over all the others, chinchilla is incompletely dominant over Himalayan and albino, and Himalayan is dominant over albino.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

And soon, amid squeals of encouragement from my friends in the Small Pet Department, from the teeniest white mouse to the lumbering chinchilla, I left Pet-O-Rama with high hopes.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

They were the first rodents to ever set foot on the continent, where they evolved into well-known groups like guinea pigs, chinchillas, capybaras and porcupines.

From Science Daily May 28, 2024

“You weren’t just dealing with moving 400 chinchillas, which is not as hard, because they’re all one species so you can find new homes more easily for them,” Peet said.

From Washington Post Dec. 28, 2022

Over decades, the courts have ruled that securities law applies to a wide variety of financial products, including contracts for the sale of chinchillas.

From New York Times Nov. 21, 2022

The city's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said in a statement late on Saturday that it collected 1,134 samples from animals other than hamsters including rabbits and chinchillas, which were all negative.

From Reuters Jan. 30, 2022

Nonetheless, the chinchillas came down with a disease peculiar to rats, and they were all dead within two weeks.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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