Guinea Pig Traits and Environment
If you don’t know this, here it is Guinea pigs are large rodents they can weigh up to three or four pounds can range between 10 and 15 inches. They have a long life span considering they are rodents, they can live between four to eight years, but depending on how healthy they are and their parent’s health a guinea pig can live longer than that. The oldest living guinea pig is recorded to have lived for fifteen years.
In the wild they usually live in small little groups that include girl guinea pigs called sows and boy guinea pigs called boars. The babies of the sows and boars are called pups. Guinea pigs mate with the same partner for life. But domestic guinea pigs can live in groups of five or more. That is why when you go to the pet store; the guinea pigs are grouped in two or more in the cages or display glass.
Guinea pigs are all different, they say that the females are more domiciles than the males but you can’t rely on that like we mentioned all guinea pigs have their own personalities and each one is different in their own way.
Guinea pigs have their own sound of communications, they are very vocal animals. The sounds they make can be classified in different ways, the first sound is called the wheek, the wheek is a loud noise that sounds as it writes. There are many meanings when a guinea pig wheeks, it can mean, I’m hurt, feed me or they are looking for attention.
Rumblings, this is a sound that the guinea pig makes when they are establishing their territory. When the guinea pig is mating he or she will make a purring sounds and move from side to side.
Once you learn the sounds of the guinea pigs you will be able to figure of what they want in no time.
