Guinea Pig Trivia – A Quiz About Our Lovable Cavy Friends
Just how much do you know about guinea pigs? Take this short test of cavy information and find out. You may be surprised and delighted by many of the answers.
1. What are baby guinea pigs called?
a. Puppies
b. Guppies
c. Sprouts
d. Forest Gump
2. Guinea pigs have to be administered daily supplements of which vitamin?
a. Vitamin A
b. Vitamin B
c. Vitamin C
d. Flintstones chewables
3. Which of these animals is the most closely related to the guinea pig?
a. Rabbit
b. Penguin
c. Beaver
d. Forest Gump
4. Where do cavies historically come from?
a. Africa
b. South America
c. K-Mart
d. Their moms
5. When guinea pigs spring into the air, it is referred to as
a. Bubbling
b. Tiddly Winking
c. Popcorning
d. Springing into the air
And now for the answers:
1. Curiously enough, baby guinea pigs are referred to as puppies. You might expect them to be called piglets to maintain the barnyard pig reference – because mature male guinea pigs are called boars and female fully grown guinea pigs are called sows.
2. Guinea pigs absolutely must be given daily vitamin C supplements because they, just like us humans, lack a selected enzyme required to create this life-sustaining micronutrient in their bodies.
3. The beaver is most tightly related to the guinea pig. (Forest Gump is most closely related to the summer sausage.)
4. Guinea pigs are originally from the Andean region of South America which is composed of modern day Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. Indigenous tribal peoples kept and raised them as food. (I hear they had a guinea pig meatloaf that was to die for. It was great smothered in cavy gravy… Just kidding)
5. When guinea pigs spring into the air, it is called popcorning. Anyone who answered springing into the air get extra credit for your incredible grasp of the obvious.
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