Purple GreyChinchilla(Afro Violet) has a grey-purple face, back and tail, white belly and claws, and most purple-grey chinchillas have black eyes. But there are also a few extremely rare red-eyed, purple-grey chinchillas. Purple-grey chinchillas are a relatively rare color, and they are generally smaller than other color chinchillas.

Chinese name: purple-grey chinchilla

Latin name: Chinchilla laniger

Alternative names: chinchilla, chinchilla, chinchilla

Kingdom: Animalia

Distribution: South America Andes

Reproduction: Viviparous

Weight: Male 400-500g/Female 450-800g; Body Length 20-25cm; Tail Length 7-15cm Squirrel is very similar, long-tailed and short-tailed, small and fat, with head The head is like a rabbit, and the tail is like a squirrel. The chinchilla has large, bright eyes, many whiskers of different lengths on the side of the nose, and is sensitive to touch. The ears are large, thin, and bluntly rounded. The forelimbs are short with 5 toes, and the hind legs are strong with 4 toes and are good at jumping. The hair on the back and sides of the chinchilla is gray-blue (and some other artificially cultivated colors), and the abdomen gradually fades to white.

The chinchilla likes a dry and cool environment, preferably 5-25°C, and does not like strong Direct sunlight, nocturnal, nocturnal animal. Its temperament is docile, timid, likes a quiet environment, sensitive to the surrounding environment, when frightened, it emits a long alarm sound like crying; when angry, it emits a sound like snake hissing or purring; mating It makes a soft "coo" sound like a dove. The female Chinchilla is dominant in the group, if the male and female bite Frame, the general female wins. But when males and females are raised together, they get along very harmoniously and rarely fight. It sits on its hind limbs and uses the small claws of its front limbs to bring food to its mouth.

Food: bark, stems and branches of herbs or shrubs, cacti, hay and seeds