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Title: Can chinchillas see in the dark?
Post by: AnnieHank on August 12, 2011, 02:52:02 AM

Just curious.

Title: Re: Can chinchillas see in the dark?
Post by: chinclub on August 28, 2011, 06:07:36 AM

Chinchillas can't see in pitch black.  They need some sort of light in the room like a night light. Notice they have round pupils like humans.  Animals will special night vision, like cats, have the longer pupils.  The funny thing about chinchillas is that they run by memory not by sight. You may have noticed that if you let your chinchilla out to play in a room regularly and then move something in the room your chinchilla will slam right into it. 

Title: Re: Can chinchillas see in the dark?
Post by: AnnieHank on August 28, 2011, 11:14:35 AM

Thanks for that.
That's funny you say that about them running by memory and slamming into things. Something I've noticed; there is a repeating pattern on the tiles in my bathroom. There is a shelf at one point they can jump on, when the pattern repeats further along the wall, there is a shadow from the toilet which I guess must look kinda like the shelf to them because they keep jumping into the wall there. Silly fuzzballs!  :2funny:

Title: Re: Can chinchillas see in the dark?
Post by: Hoppinchins on September 01, 2011, 03:17:49 PM

thats interesting. I never knew that.

Title: Re: Can chinchillas see in the dark?
Post by: jmdebb on September 01, 2011, 11:27:17 PM

Quote from: chinclub on August 28, 2011, 06:07:36 AM

Chinchillas can't see in pitch black.  They need some sort of light in the room like a night light. Notice they have round pupils like humans.  Animals will special night vision, like cats, have the longer pupils.  The funny thing about chinchillas is that they run by memory not by sight. You may have noticed that if you let your chinchilla out to play in a room regularly and then move something in the room your chinchilla will slam right into it. 

omg, they do too.. i feel so bad, most of the times, when the girls are out, both bottom cage doors are open, and they go in and out, and in and out.. well sometimes when i want to put them away, i will shut one of them, and one of them will come running up, jump and SLAM into the door, i feel horrible.. but if i leave them both open, when i put one in, she'll get  back out while i'm trying to get the other..  :doh: