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Guinea pigs (also called cavies) are rodents belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, originally indigenous to the Andes.
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Species: | C. porcellus |
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Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Despite their common name, the animals are not pigs, nor do they come from Guinea.