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[Summer]

Some one else found this on another forum. I thought it was neat not to post the link here. the first on seams kind of like a zoo setting. I don't know.

http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Chinchilla_lanigera/more_moving_images.html

Here is another one


http://www.wildchinchillas.org/

What do guys think?

[Sweetnessheart]

Very Interesting!  Thanks!   

[shadowborne]

Is it me or do they look a bit bigger in the wild?

[Jo Ann]

  Not your imagination ... chinchillas in the wild were know to weigh as much as 5 pounds.   

 
Jo Ann

P.S.  I just added a page to my site with the plants they eat in the wild, what parts of the plants and pictures of the plants.  It's at: http://www.luvnchins.com/DietWildChinchilla.html

[Abby W.]

That's really interesting Jo Ann!  I wonder if it is possible or even advisable to try growing those plants for domesticated chins?  I have a black thumb so I doubt I could do it (I once managed to kill a cactus  ).  But I wonder if it would be better for them to have such a natural diet.

[ThreeLilChins]

Thats a different way to see them good post.

[Jo Ann]

   Most of the plants are hard to grow and have to have very special environments to survive. 
    Three of them are almost extinct.
    Some do not bloom until they are 3 to 8 years old.
     There is one that has only bloomed twice in the US ... when it was, it think, 22 and 38 years old.
 :-[   Most grow very slowly.
    Anytime you change the environment, soil and natural fertilizer for the plants, the plants themselves change ... that's evolution for ya.

     Just like the warning to never spray a fruit tree, if you plan to give the chins the fruit or even the wood.  Plants absorb everything they are exposed to in their environment.

   Jo Ann

[Jenova]

Wow. That brings a whole new light to everything.
Perhaps to save chinchillas in the wild they should also look at saving some of these plants too. Nature is so weird.

[Jo Ann]

  It's not nature, it's man.  As with many of our endangered friends ... plants as well as animals ... we are constantly encroaching on their land and are indignant when they eat our flowers or trees.     I'll never understand the arrogance of man.

   But don't get me started on that ... I can get long-winded and hostile when cities hire hunters to kill dear that come into town to find food because their land is being destroyed.  Or a white/albino deer is killed ... just because it is different.   Or two coyote pups are put to death because man considers them 'nuisance' animals.

Gotta to get off the forum for a short short or I'll keep going. 

 
Jo Ann

[Debbie.nl.ca]

That's awful Jo Ann,
We are getting so many moose coming into town these days, but no one here would ever think to kill them.
They many get killed on the highways, many people too because of them.
We try to help prevent it by cutting back the brush from the sides of the roads and highways.
Every few days on the news we get to see footage of one in someones back yard, or strolling through down town.
We tranquilize them if need be and bring them back out in the woods.
Same with all the wild life that strolls in.
Yes it's because of man too that they are in town at all.
So many subdivions going up that they are being forced out, and/or looking for food.