Interesting article on Poop

[Bostongirl'sChin75]

http://news.discovery.com/earth/chinchilla-rainfall-chile.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

I found this today while on my college's web site!

 

[Stackie]

Chinchillas deposit their waste in personal scrap piles full of plants and their poop that they glue together with urine.

If my chins glued their poop together it would be much easier to clean up...

 

[Bostongirl'sChin75]

I wish mine would too!

 

[mishellyshel]

ahhh so that is why my chins poop is larger when it snows! :rofl:

 

[Chinwawa]

Wow, who would have thought about the scientific possibilities of chin poop.
It's amazing that it would last that long.

 

[StevieP]

Pretty cool.

Chin poop FTW!

 

[alli713]

I know, I was wondering about how they said that chinchillas clump their poop together. Not the domesticated ones! I wonder if wild ones do that?

 

[ticklechin]

Scientific articles on the subject from the past talk about chinchilla rats, not chinchillas and pack rats-they make middens, not chinchillas. I think the person who wrote this article got it wrong.


Chinchilla rats
(Abrocomidae)

Class Mammalia

Order Rodentia

Suborder Hystricognathi

Family Abrocomidae



http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/grze_16/grze_16_01000.html

 

[ticklechin]

And BTW chinchilla rats are CUTE

http://www.arkive.org/bennetts-chinchilla-rat/abrocoma-bennettii/info.html

 

[Sandi]

Yes, chinchilla rats are very cute but still, I thought if I posted this article above
their cages :idea: they would read it, learn from their ancestors and refrain from
flinging their poop all over my basement. :crazy:

 

[alli713]

The chinchilla rat kind of looks like a degu

 

[cindyv3737]

I thought if I posted this article above
their cages :idea: they would read it, learn from their ancestors and refrain from
flinging their poop all over my basement. :crazy:

Let me know if that works for you. If it does then Shelly is getting some new reading material.

 

[Ash]

I'm confused. The article says "chinchillas" and has a picture of a chinchilla, but then says

Chinchillas (more formally called chinchilla rats) and other rodents deposit their waste in "middens,"

So is it chinchillas, or chinchilla rats?

 

[ticklechin]

From what I gather the person who wrote the article made a mistake by thinking chins were chinchilla rats, other older articles on the subject clearly state chinchilla rats by their latin name.

 

[Ash]

Gotcha.

 

[Lynn & The Chins]

I KNEW that chin owners weren't the only ones who obsessed about chin poop!!! WOW -- a scientific study based on it...who knew???