Chinchillas are so fluffy because they come ... They are herbivorous, which means they don’t eat meat. In the wild, they eat grasses, leaves, barks and cactus fruits, but for pets, 95 per ...

In 1929, the hunting of chinchillas – a rodent endemic to South America – was banned, as a century of ruthless harvesting had rendered the species “commercially extinct.” What was the upshot?

Chinchillas are currently protected under the Washington Convention, and it is prohibited to capture and trade wild chinchillas for commercial purposes.

And Moulton Chinchilla Ranch (MCR)—a licensed dealer supplying chinchillas for experimentation (see AWI Quarterly, summer 2020)—knows it. In fact, by early 2018, MCR had had enough of the inspector ...

With their famously soft fur and cute ears, it is no wonder that chinchillas are a popular pet. Luckily for us humans, these fur babies have quite a few ways to communicate. Kris Koh is a ...