As a pet to the tag located in apartments of fans of animals quite recently. Places of its natural dwelling is the Chilean Andes. At first the small animal was ranked as proteins, then as rats. Absolutely it is clear one are rodents.
Instruction
1. If you never had to see before to the tag, then its look can really nonplus you – what the animal such is? Whether rat, whether squirrel. Consider him attentively. At all its similarity to other rodents, he has own charm.
2. To the tag, the Chilean squirrel, a shrubby rat – names of the same small animal. Really, by the form he reminds at the same time both a squirrel, and a rat. But most of all looks like a gerbil. Attentively consider a small animal. The similarity to a gerbil gives him the trimmed tail with a brush on the end. A back at it brown or brown. A paunch cream and the same color of a mug around eyes. Ears are much larger, than at a gerbil. A natural color of a gerbil – gray, and it more small to the tag.
3. In anatomic features to the tag are similar to guinea pigs though externally strongly differ. It is impossible to confuse them. Guinea pigs are much larger, ears at them trailing. Some of their breeds have long wool. To the tag have standing ears, the form they remind human kidneys. Short wool. These animals of only 200-300 g weigh.
4. Sometimes to the tag compare to jerboas. At an opportunity consider also that and another. Front pads of a small animal are shorter than back. On it the similarity comes to an end. A foot of back extremities of a jerboa have nearly a half of length of his body. Short trunk. The difference of lengths of front and back pads is expressed to the tag not so strongly.
5. To the tag compare to a rat, probably only because of a long tail. For the rest they are not similar. Besides, rats have no brushes on a tail tip.
6. Consider a muzzle of a small animal. Here the similarity and a chinchilla and a squirrel "is available". Head of rounded shape. Flat nose. Short, thickset neck. But, of course, it cannot be confused with a squirrel as that has bright distinctive feature – a magnificent tail. Chinchillas are twice larger. There now, perhaps, and all. Now you will not confuse to the tag with neither with a squirrel, nor with a rat any more.