chinchilla

The costliest felines to insure were the Maine coon, one of the largest house cats, which can be prone to a type of muscle atrophy, and the chinchilla, a popular longhair, Spot Pet Insurance said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

The scene captured on video is among the findings from an undercover investigation into conditions on Romania’s chinchilla fur farms, carried out last year by the animal welfare charity Humane Society International.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

TL:DR: do not lick your chinchilla while you have monkeypox.

From The Verge ● Aug. 5, 2022

In this case, the wild- type allele is dominant over all the others, chinchilla is incompletely dominant over Himalayan and albino, and Himalayan is dominant over albino.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

She shook her head and blinked rapidly as she approached the furrier’s, where a harried-looking woman was pawing through chinchilla furs with one hand while gripping the arm of her young son with the other.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

They lack the adorable charisma of chinchillas, porcupines, moles or rats, though.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

They were the first rodents to ever set foot on the continent, where they evolved into well-known groups like guinea pigs, chinchillas, capybaras and porcupines.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

“You weren’t just dealing with moving 400 chinchillas, which is not as hard, because they’re all one species so you can find new homes more easily for them,” Peet said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022

Over decades, the courts have ruled that securities law applies to a wide variety of financial products, including contracts for the sale of chinchillas.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

Jean had organized his business with the same tenacity he had formerly brought to the idea of the chinchillas, but this time with more success.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende