Pig-Piggy-Pigs (Penguin Young Readers, Level 2)

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Bazer, Fuller W.; Song, Gwonhwa; Kim, Jinyoung; Dunlap, Kathrin A.; Satterfield, Michael Carey; Johnson, Gregory A.; Burghardt, Robert C.; Wu, Guoyao (1 January 2012). "Uterine biology in pigs and sheep". Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. 3 (1): 23. doi: 10.1186/2049-1891-3-23. ISSN 2049-1891. PMC 3436697. PMID 22958877. a b Ziecik, A. J.; etal. (2018). "Regulation of the porcine corpus luteum during pregnancy". Reproduction. 156 (3): R57–R67. doi: 10.1530/rep-17-0662. PMID 29794023. The Chinese refer to the animal as 豚鼠 ( túnshǔ, "pig mouse"), and sometimes as 荷蘭豬 ( hélánzhū, 'Netherlands pig') or 天竺鼠 ( tiānzhúshǔ, "Indian mouse"). The Japanese word for guinea pig is モルモット ( morumotto), which derives from the name of another mountain-dwelling rodent, the marmot. This is what the guinea pigs were called by Dutch traders, who first brought them to Nagasaki in 1843. The other, and less common, Japanese word for guinea pig, using kanji, is 天竺鼠 (てんじくねずみ or tenjiku-nezumi), which literally translates as "India rat". [75] Diet A silver agouti guinea pig eating grass, the staple of the diet, which is often replaced with hay. Cavy". Oxford English Dictionary online (subscription access required). Archived from the original on 2006-06-25 . Retrieved 2007-04-25.

Guinea pigs can learn complex paths to food, and can accurately remember a learned path for months. Their strongest problem-solving strategy is motion. [38] While guinea pigs can jump small obstacles, they cannot jump very high. Most of them are poor climbers, and are not particularly agile. They startle easily, and when they sense danger either freeze in place for long periods, or run for cover with rapid, darting motions. [12] Larger groups of startled guinea pigs " stampede", running in haphazard directions as a means of confusing predators. [39] When happily excited, guinea pigs may (often repeatedly) perform little hops in the air (a movement known as "popcorning"), analogous to the ferret's war dance [40] or rabbit happy hops (binkies). Guinea pigs are also good swimmers, [41] although they do not like being wet and infrequently need bathing. Houpt, K.A., (1998). Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists. 3rd edition. Iowa State University Press, Ames. World's 100 most destructive species named". The Independent. 21 November 2004. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022 . Retrieved 7 March 2017. There are many things that mark Piggy out as "different". He comes from a lower social class than the others and has been brought up by an auntie. He wears glasses, is fat, has asthma and seems to be a bit lazy.The Fairy Caravan, a novel by Beatrix Potter, [127] and Michael Bond's Olga da Polga series for children, [128] both feature guinea pigs as the protagonist. Another appearance is in The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis: in the first (chronologically) of his The Chronicles of Narnia series, a guinea pig is the first creature to travel to the Wood between the Worlds. [129] In Ursula Dubosarsky's Maisie and the Pinny Gig, a little girl has a recurrent dream about a giant guinea pig, while guinea pigs feature significantly in several of Dubosarsky's other books, including the young adult novel The White Guinea Pig and The Game of the Goose. [130] In film and television Carl Zimmerman (15 October 2015). "Editing of Pig DNA May Lead to More Organs for People". The New York Times. Some obstacles to successful organ donation from a pig to a human arise from the response of the recipient's immune system—generally more extreme than in allotransplantations, ultimately results in rejection of the xenograft, and in some cases results in the death of the recipient—including hyperacute rejection, acute vascular rejection, cellular rejection, and chronic rejection.

Elsevier Academic Press(2012). "The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents" p. 705 American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. ISBN 0123809207.

Guinea pigs do not generally thrive when housed with other species. Larger animals may regard guinea pigs as prey, though some dogs and cats can be trained to accept them. [47] Opinion is divided over the cohousing of guinea pigs and rabbits. Some published sources say that guinea pigs and rabbits complement each other well when sharing a cage. [47] [48] However, rabbits have different nutritional requirements; as lagomorphs, they synthesize their own Vitamin C, so the two species will not thrive if fed the same food when housed together. [49] Rabbits may also harbor diseases (such as respiratory infections from Bordetella and Pasteurella), to which guinea pigs are susceptible. [50] Housing guinea pigs with other rodents such as gerbils and hamsters may increase instances of respiratory and other infections, [51] and such rodents may act aggressively toward guinea pigs. [52] Vocalization