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Guinea pig
Season 1 · Episode 2

Guinea pig

Wild No More, the Animal Domestication Podcast

January 19, 202536m 21s

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Show Notes

Sara and Maria discuss guinea pig history as a meat animal, a pet and much more. Sara unleashes her inner guinea pig.

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Articles used in this episode:

American Cavy Breeders' Association, accessed January 5, 2024 https://www.acbaonline.com/

Canadian Press. "Frozen guinea pig meat in Montreal court. Carcasses from Peru seized in 2009 a 'mistake': importer." March 7, 2011. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/frozen-guinea-pig-meat-in-montreal-court-1.1093335

hoakley. "Paintings of guinea pigs and goldfish." The Electric Light Company: Macs, Painting, and More. January 22, 2022. https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/22/paintings-of-guinea-pigs-and-goldfish/

Lewejohann, Lars, et al. "Wild genius-domestic fool? Spatial learning abilities of wild and domestic guinea pigs." Frontiers in Zoology 7 (2010): 1-8.

Lord, Edana, et al. "Ancient DNA of guinea pigs (Cavia spp.) indicates a probable new center of domestication and pathways of global distribution." Scientific reports 10.1 (2020): 8901.

Valdez, Lidio M., and J. Ernesto Valdez. "Reconsidering the archaeological rarity of guinea pig bones in the Central Andes." Current Anthropology 38.5 (1997): 896-897.

Valdez, Lidio M. "Inka sacrificial guinea pigs from Tambo Viejo, Peru." International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 29.4 (2019): 595-601.

Woods, Jason. "Tiny guinea pigs give a big boost," WorldArk Magazine Spring (2017). Available from https://web.archive.org/web/20170418003620/https://www.heifer.org/join-the-conversation/magazine/2017/spring/tiny-guinea-pigs-give-big-boost.html

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Intro and outro music: Nashville Vibes by Andy Warner https://tunetank.com/track/6477-nashville-vibes/