🐭Guinea pig
豚鼠(学名:Cavia porcellus),又名天竺鼠、葵鼠、荷兰猪,在动物学的分类是哺乳纲啮齿目豚鼠科豚鼠属。尽管英文名字叫“guinea pig”(几内亚猪),但是这种动物既不是猪,也并非来自几内亚或荷兰。其祖先来自南美洲的安第斯山脉,根据生物化学和杂交分析,豚鼠是一种天竺鼠诸如白臀豚鼠(C. aperea)、艳豚鼠(C. fulgida)或草原豚鼠(C. tschudii)等近缘物种经过驯化的后代。因此,这种动物在大自然已经不复存在。在南美原住民的文化中,豚鼠佔有重要地位,它们不仅是一种食物来源,也是一种药物来源和宗教仪式的祭品。从1960年代以后,在南美洲以外地区对豚鼠的需求开始增涨。 豚鼠是由16世纪的欧洲商人带到西方的,当时人们就很喜欢这种小动物并作为宠物饲养。牠们性情温顺,讨巧可爱,比较容易照顾,至今仍旧是常见的家养宠物。世界上有些组织争先恐后地致力繁殖豚鼠,人们培育出了多种毛色不一,形态不同的品种。 20世纪上半叶,在英语裡豚鼠成为参与科学实验的人的流行代名词。在豚鼠身上进行生物实验从17世纪就开始了,在19世纪和20世纪这种动物一般被当作模式生物,后来普遍被老鼠等别的哺乳动物取代。如今,豚鼠仍旧用于科学研究,主要针对脊髓损伤、少年糖尿病、肺结核、坏血症和怀孕并发症等人类常见疾病。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2012.
- Body mass
- 0.73 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 12 years
Everything we know about the Guinea pig
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.73 kgAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan12 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation68 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 4AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.7 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Guinea pig yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyCaviidae
- ›genusCavia
- ›speciesCavia porcellus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- familyCaviidae
- genusCavia
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderHystricomorpha
- familyCaviidae
- genusCavia
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