Chinchilla
| Chinchilla Temporal range: Late Oligocene - Recent
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Faimily: | Chinchillidae Bennett, 1833 |
| Genus: | Chinchilla Bennett, 1829 |
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Chinchilla lanigera | |
The Chinchilla is a smaw rodent that bides in the Andes in Sooth Americae. They ar active durin dusk an dawn. Such an activity pattern is cried crepuscular. Thegither wi the Viscacha, they form the Chinchillidae faimily.[1]