Las cobayas are quite popular pets for people of most age ranges. Every single cavy is special, having his or her personal personality and favorite things. Below are a few interesting and fun guinea pig details:
1) When guinea pigs are happy and enthusiastic they generally do little jumps, and flicks of their back legs – this is what’s called ‘pop-corning’ and it is normal with young pigs.
2) Do cavies have tails? There’s so much confusion relating to this cavy topic. In fact, piggies have a tail vertebrae but many do not have a tail that you can notice.
3) In order to be able to properly digest their food cobayas will consume some of their faces. However, they only eat certain types of their poop called ‘cecotropes’ or ‘cecal faeces’- these kind of poop possess B vitamins and bacteria in that cavies should completely digest grass.
4) Cavies may be found roaming wild in some parts of South America.
5) Curiously, almost all cavies are not nocturnal, or fully diurnal, but are what many individuals call ‘alert nappers’. This implies they generally rest and quiet down during the night, but will often rest in the daytime also.
6) Pigs have a wide range of ‘squeaks’ and ‘wheeks’ that they use to communicate with their proprietors and other cavies with.
7) Guinea pigs cannot produce their own Vitamin C like the majority of rodents can, but have to eat it, otherwise they may get conditions like scurvy which are generally linked to Vitamin C insufficiency.
Baby pigs are able to run at the young age of 3 hours!
9) Most jaulas para cobayas teeth never stop growing.
10) Guinea pig’s aren’t associated with pigs despite their name! It is considered that they were named ‘pigs’ because of their squeaking sounding similar to proper pigs, and the ‘guinea’ part is thought to appear from the fact that some cavies are available wild in Guyana.
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