How to live in the wild nature of the Guinea Pigs?

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In nature, Guinea Pigs exclusively herbivores, they eat all accessible parts of a variety of herbaceous plants and their seeds. Pigs grazing groups and communicate with each other with whistles. If there is a danger, they immediately hide in their earthen burrows.

Two abyssinian guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus).

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Wild Guinea Pig has no active means of protection from predators and alone would be doomed. But to be surprised a group of these animals is not so simple. They have a keen ear and a subtle scent, rest and watched by turns. As alarm one guinea pig, the first to notice the danger, her relatives immediately hide in burrows, in which a large animal simply can not get through.

Additional protection animal is its cleanliness. Mumps many times a day to wash and clean, combed and licking themselves and their kids pile. And so finding a pig by the smell of the predator is unlikely to succeed.

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