Guinea Pig
Guinea pigs are one of the world's most popular pets--small, friendly, easy to care for, and unbearably cute. We have felt this way for a long time: guinea pigs were first domesticated in 5000 B.C.E.…
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Guinea pigs are one of the world's most popular pets--small, friendly, easy to care for, and unbearably cute. We have felt this way for a long time: guinea pigs were first domesticated in 5000 B.C.E. Since then they have inspired historical figures ranging from the scientist William Harvey to the artists Jan Brueghel and Beatrix Potter. In this book, Dorothy Yamamoto offers the first in-depth treatment of this cuddly little creature over the several millennia it has been a part of our lives.Yamamoto examines the role guinea pigs have today--as pets--but also looks back to less loving times when guinea pigs were put to more direct use. She discusses them as a crucial sacrificial offering to Incan gods, as the entr e in the Cusco Cathedral's painting of The Last Supper, and as a highly favored experimental subject--for which they have become the quintessential metaphor for
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