See this picture you have not been cute to, there are actually such rats in the world. When we think of rats in our daily lives, we often think of rats. Rats are terrified in our hearts, and we don't even want to think about it, let alone look at it.
Today I bring you a cute "rat", a groundhog. It is also known as the marmot, an animal that lives in alpine mountainous areas, and the marmot is mainly distributed in the steppes of North America to Canada and Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. In China, it is mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other places, and there are also chinchillas in pastoral areas of Qinghai Province.
Groundhogs, rodents, weigh an average of 4.5 kg, can grow up to 6.5 kg, and are about 56 cm long. Marmots and squirrels are rodents. It is mainly vegetarian, most of the food is: vegetables, alfalfa grass, lettuce, apples, peas, corn and other vegetables and fruits, a day can eat up to five kilograms of green vegetables and fruits. It can be a "good eater", a small snack we usually eat, and it is also a favorite. Eating potato chips that is called a fragrant. However, for the sake of its health, in addition to fresh vegetables and fruits, it is recommended to feed rabbits instead of mouse feed to reduce their cardiovascular, endocrine disorders and overweight diseases.
Its cuteness lies in its fat short hands and feet and the pair of long front teeth in the front row of its bar, silly and cute look. And it can stand up, its hands can also hold things like human hands, they can use their hands to help themselves eat, hold tightly, afraid that others will grab it. However, its cute teeth have a disadvantage, that is, they will always grow, and the growth rate is faster, if you do not often chew foods with high fiber, it will happen that the front teeth are too long to eat. So give it more food!
Groundhog, as the name suggests, it also has a skill of punching holes. Groundhogs are good at digging burrows, and usually caves have more than two entrances for safety. It can be seen that it is a highly alert animal. Most of them are active during the day, like to live in groups, good at digging soil, digging tunnels up to several meters deep, with grass-paved living rooms, very comfortable. Instead of storing food, they store fat in their bodies in the summer so that they can hibernate in the cave in the winter.
They are generally a relatively easy animal to keep. There is food on the line, they are almost not picky eaters. Do you want to take one home?