A guinea pig the size of a buffalo - b horror or real?

[Ash]

This article about an extinct giant Guinea pig makes me think of those old 50's or 60's horror movies with the giant rats and other animals and bugs. They used to show them on late night TV (sometimes with a host who made fun of them) when I was a little kid. There was always a radiation spill or the water got contaminated somehow or something like that. Classic!



The largest rodent that ever lived, Phoberomys pattersoni, seen in this artist rendering, was roughly the size of a buffalo, and roamed the banks of an ancient Venezuelan river some 8 million years ago dining on sea grass and dodging crocodiles. Researchers have recently found in Venezuela the most complete skelton to date of this giant rodent, which is an evolutionary sibling to modern-day guinea pigs.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...168/5b1kg.html

[scare_queen]

I read that too. It's very possible that it once lived and it probably did. Down in South America in parts of Brazil, they have giant rodents that look like half guinea pig and half rat, and they are the size of a large dog. They are very cute lol:)

[Ritualistic]

Man there is weird ass looking animals in a lot of other countries. Have you ever really looked at the ant eater.. thing has rabbit ears.. Make a movie called "attack of the Giant ant eaters"

[furballothrills]

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why are they called Guinea Pigs?

[urgeok]

Originally posted by furballothrills
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why are they called Guinea Pigs?

thats how much they cost.


a little UK humor there for you kids.




can you imagine how loud and annoying those squeaky grunting sounds they make would be at that size ??!!

[newb]

Originally posted by furballothrills
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why are they called Guinea Pigs?

Must be Italian.




BOOO.......HISSSS.......Sorry kids.......I take the material at hand and run with it.



No offense to our Italian posters........I don't need a horse's head in my bed...thank you very much.

[furballothrills]

That must have been the family of the ones that the Incas ate. They didn't eat the small domesticated ones, but the old ones before they were trained as pets and all that crap.
Guinea Pigs= The Other Other White Meat

[ChEEbA]

Down in South America in parts of Brazil, they have giant rodents that look like half guinea pig and half rat, and they are the size of a large dog.

Are you talking about a mongoose?

Hmmm guinea pigs - got two for free from a petshop desperately trying to get rid of them. I used to think they had about the same personality as rabbits (I have no former experience with either), but I was wrong. See, the other day, I went into the petshop again, and rabbits actually approach you an are quite friendly, especially, for some reason, the floppy eared ones - they look at you inquisitively, and appear to actually have a brain.
The guinea pigs however, they're completely fucking dumb...since I got the two of them, they've shown me no evidence that evolution shouldn't have wiped them off the face of the planet already.
Dumb little shits, I've owned them for about 2 months ago, and feed them very well, I try sitting with them - they run away, I try picking them up - they run away, and when I actually grab one, I'll be lucky if it doesn't kick and scratch and make this dumbass squeeling noise that makes you wanna snap their fucking neck.
And I REALLY like animals.
So today right, I run them a bath, and get this...the water was shallow enough so down one end of the bath they could swim, but the other end they could stand in. So they're sitting in that end, no moving, huddled up like retards...so I push them down the other end, and they swim back, again and again.
I use a flea/gnat protectant soap on all my animals.
So - I went to pick up one of them, and as per usual it freaks out...the only thing is, the stupid motherfuker must've gasped or something and inhaled water...GASP, GASP, GASP - dead.
Nothing I could've done really, I tried upturning it and pumping it's chest lightly to get rid of any water, but nope...didn't work.
Had it not freaked out unneccesarily like a stupid little over-paranoid BITCH, it would've been nice, clean, and ALIVE.
Death by stupidity - It actually happens.

As much as I think I should, I just CANNOT bring myself to care - I look upon this animal as nothing but a burden, it never gave ANYTHING back in the form of SOME kind of friendship, as a pet should.

NEVER BUY GUINEA PIGS...unless you're gonna eat 'em or something.

- B.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by ChEEbA
Are you talking about a mongoose?

Hmmm guinea pigs - got two for free from a petshop desperately trying to get rid of them. I used to think they had about the same personality as rabbits (I have no former experience with either), but I was wrong. See, the other day, I went into the petshop again, and rabbits actually approach you an are quite friendly, especially, for some reason, the floppy eared ones - they look at you inquisitively, and appear to actually have a brain.
The guinea pigs however, they're completely fucking dumb...since I got the two of them, they've shown me no evidence that evolution shouldn't have wiped them off the face of the planet already.
Dumb little shits, I've owned them for about 2 months ago, and feed them very well, I try sitting with them - they run away, I try picking them up - they run away, and when I actually grab one, I'll be lucky if it doesn't kick and scratch and make this dumbass squeeling noise that makes you wanna snap their fucking neck.
And I REALLY like animals.
So today right, I run them a bath, and get this...the water was shallow enough so down one end of the bath they could swim, but the other end they could stand in. So they're sitting in that end, no moving, huddled up like retards...so I push them down the other end, and they swim back, again and again.
I use a flea/gnat protectant soap on all my animals.
So - I went to pick up one of them, and as per usual it freaks out...the only thing is, the stupid motherfuker must've gasped or something and inhaled water...GASP, GASP, GASP - dead.
Nothing I could've done really, I tried upturning it and pumping it's chest lightly to get rid of any water, but nope...didn't work.
Had it not freaked out unneccesarily like a stupid little over-paranoid BITCH, it would've been nice, clean, and ALIVE.
Death by stupidity - It actually happens.

As much as I think I should, I just CANNOT bring myself to care - I look upon this animal as nothing but a burden, it never gave ANYTHING back in the form of SOME kind of friendship, as a pet should.

NEVER BUY GUINEA PIGS...unless you're gonna eat 'em or something.

- B.

arent you glad they weren't the size of buffalos ?

[ChEEbA]

The other red meat.