. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 360 THE RODENTS OR GNAWING THE GUINEA PIG. Our universally known Guinea Pig (Cavia porcel- lus) has so far, in point of pedigree, shared the fate of many domestic animals; its progenitors can not be traced with accuracy. The record of its geneal- ogy is lost in antiquity. As far as known the little creature was introduced into Europe by the Dutch, soon after the discovery of America, that is, in the sixteenth century. Gesner had even at h
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 360 THE RODENTS OR GNAWING THE GUINEA PIG. Our universally known Guinea Pig (Cavia porcel- lus) has so far, in point of pedigree, shared the fate of many domestic animals; its progenitors can not be traced with accuracy. The record of its geneal- ogy is lost in antiquity. As far as known the little creature was introduced into Europe by the Dutch, soon after the discovery of America, that is, in the sixteenth century. Gesner had even at his early day become acquainted with it, and from that time it has been bred continuously, but until recently the original stock from which it descended was quite commonly (and probably erroneously) thought to be the Brazilian Aperea or Restless Cavy {Cavia aperea). Nehring's investigations, however, have proved that it springs from the Peruvian Cavy ( Cavia cutleri), a species closely allied to the Rest- less Cavy, and kept in that country in a domesti- cated state as early as the times of the Incas. As 0^ MRajM. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Edward, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard. Chicago : Marquis
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