Chinchillas are so fluffy because they come ... They are herbivorous, which means they don’t eat meat. In the wild, they eat grasses, leaves, barks and cactus fruits, but for pets, 95 per ...

In 1923, an Anaconda mining engineer named Mathias Chapman captured eleven of the remaining wild chinchillas, brought them from the Andes to Southern California in an ice-cooled crate. He started ...

In 1929, the hunting of chinchillas – a rodent endemic to South America – was banned, as a century of ruthless harvesting had rendered the species “commercially extinct.” What was the upshot?