chinchilla

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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

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

From The Verge • Aug. 5, 2022

Perhaps the most famous ode to this mammal comes from Beyonce’s 2006 hit “Ring the Alarm,” with the opening lyric saying “she gon’ be rockin’ chinchilla coats” as a symbol of confidence and independence.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 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

Men envied Esteban Trueba, who had been chosen for the chinchilla farm.

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