Vischaca

20th March 2009

Boyfriend has a background picture of Machu Picchu on his computer. So I casually mentioned to him that Machu Picchu is where Tubby & Winnie’s cousins are from. He gave me the weirdest look; after all these times of owning 2 chinchillas, he had always thought that the Andes mountain (where chinchillas are from) is geographically located somewhere near India & Nepal 0_o

Then, he curiously searched for “Machu Picchu chinchilla” and he found a bunch of travel pictures of ‘chinchillas’ residing in the Machu Picchu ruins. When he shared the search results with me, I remember of another creature my friend had emailed me about; those are not pictures of ‘chinchillas’ residing in Machu Picchu, but they are Vischacas! They’re close cousins of chinchillas, no wonder people mistakenly believe that they are in fact chinchillas!

One of these days I do want to make a trip to Chile’s part of the Andes mountain, where Tubby is from; and then I’m going to throw some raisins at the wild chinchillas* ;-)

*I’m just saying; don’t do this because it’ll only make the wild animals dependent on humans & it’ll just make it harder for them to survive on their own in their natural habitat.

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2 Responses to “Vischaca”

  1. furrybutts Says:
    March 22nd, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    Oh what a coincidence! I had dinner with some friends yesterday and we were all talking about how fun it would be if we got to visit Machu Picchu! If we ever do go, I’ll look out for the Vischacas!

  2. kisetsu Says:
    March 24th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    From that photo, it looks like a cross between a hare and a chin. :S I din know such animal exists but it good. I like animals to be in the wild, it’s their nature. Hope this species will remain in Manchu Picchu. :)

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