The red-cheeked chinchilla likes to eat the green parts of plants, flowers and fruits, tuberous roots and a small amount of coleopteran insects. In the farming area, they also eat the young stems and leaves of wheat, beans and alfalfa. In early spring, it mostly feeds on the rhizomes of withered grass, and also eats a small amount of seeds in autumn. Therefore, it is better to feed the above several kinds of red-cheeked squirrels.

Next, let's take a look at the red-cheeked squirrels Morphological characteristics. The interorbital skull of the red-cheeked chinchilla is narrow, usually no more than 9 mm in adults, and an average of 18.9% of the length of the skull base. The snout is short and narrow, and the width measured by the horizontal line in the incisor hole is mostly less than 8 mm. Most of the upper molars are longer than the tooth space, and a few are shorter than the tooth space. The pair of hard palatal fossa behind the upper incisors are very shallow and do not extend posteriorly into shallow grooves.