To development of modern selection there is not always clear what animal before you is., It seems, the rabbit, and, maybe, is also not present. Breeds of decorative rabbits are so various today that the inexperienced fan not always manages to distinguish kids krolchat from rare animal other species. How, for example, to understand, than does the krolchonok with small ears and gray fur differ from a chinchilla?
Instruction
1. Pay attention to a tail of a small animal. At rabbits, even if they not dwarfish, a tail usually short. If you see the long tail making more than 2/3 lengths of his body – before you a chinchilla at a cub. At adult animals length of a tail is from 7 to 15 cm, rabbits cannot brag of such tails. Also characteristic sign of a sort is the shape of an auricle. Even at krolchat with short ears it is possible to notice that they have the extended form. And here shape of an auricle of a chinchilla round. By the sizes of ears to try to distinguish rabbits from chinchillas is not necessary as chinchillas possess large ears (at adult individuals they reach 8-10 cm), rabbits can have just the same ears also.
2. Touch a small animal and estimate his fur. Rabbits and chinchillas differ in structure and quality of fur. The fact is that the chinchilla possesses really unique fur – from one hair bulb at her 60-80 thinnest hairs grow at once. For this reason a fur coat at this small animal gentle and velvety to the touch. If to touch fur of a rabbit, it will be more rough, velvet and lightnesses as at a chinchilla, you do not feel here. And one more important nuance – chinchillas do not fade, and here it happens to rabbits. If you see that the animal is covered with uneven fur from which scraps, before you a rabbit are beaten out.
3. Peer at a shape of a body and an animal habit. At chinchillas the large roundish head, and a shape of a body slightly oval, with obvious rounding in a back part. If to observe movements of a chinchilla, surely there is an association with a squirrel. Rabbits can also have the large head, but their body is more extended in length, and a back part is not so rounded. Look at movements of a little rabbit and you will understand that he jumps more, than runs. Its movements are less graceful, than at a chinchilla. Besides, rabbits are not able to climb up vertical surfaces, and here for a chinchilla it does not make big work.