Guinea pig
Cavia porcellus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Cavia porcellus
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Rodent
- Family
- Caviidae
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Size
- Tiny (under 10 cm)
- Active
- At dawn and dusk
- Continent
- South America
- Habitat
- Grassland, Mountains
- Conservation status
- Not evaluated (domestic)
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Like humans, guinea pigs cannot make their own vitamin C.
- Guinea pigs were first kept in the Andes thousands of years ago, and they are neither from Guinea nor pigs.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q79803 · All animals · All entries