Totoro is a small mammalian pet that we are very familiar with. Its popularity is also very high worldwide, but its official name should be called the long-tailed woolly rat. This name is derived from the literal translation of the English name Long-tailed Chinchilla, the Latin scientific name Ischichilla lanigera, and the additional name Lanigera means long tail.
The name of the cat is Totoro, the "My Neighbor Totoro", which is the name of the cat. In 1988, the 1988 Store was 1988, and the following is a part of the "My Neighbor Totoro" and Yurizaki 扭小小导.
"トトロ" is actually the sound made by the little girl in the play when she first meets the forest guardian, the little dragon cat in the play is called チビトトト, which refers to the eldest 1302-year-old guy.
Totoro in an animated movie
The "Totoro" is mainly found in the highlands of the Andes Mountains of South America, ranging from northern Chile to southern Peru. (Baidu Encyclopedia said that this thing is distributed in China, I don't know who uploaded this entry) Its fur is very soft and smooth, a pore has 50-80 hairs, so the body hair looks relatively fluffy, weighing about 500 ~ 800 grams, body length of 22 ~ 38 cm, so the body looks fatter, the tail is longer, about 7 to 15 cm long, plus its ears are erect, like Miyazaki Hayao's totoro.
After a large number of hunts by early hunters for the fur of the long-tailed woolly rat, there are not many wild long-tailed woolly rats left, and it is believed that there are only about a thousand left at present, classified as endangered species, and are included in the conservation list of Appendix I by CITES. (The reptiles in Appendix I are counted according to the national level key protected wild animals, why this thing is not counted as a national level key protected wild animals in China, we don't know)
"Totoro" is a nocturnal creature, often in the nocturnal activity foraging, because the digestive tract is long, so the staple food is containing high fiber, low fat forage, such as bark, roots, cacti, occasionally eat small insects, is for omnivorous animals, in addition to supplementing the water consumed by activities, will also use the morning and evening dew as a source of water supplementation.
The habitat of the long-tailed woolly rat is selected in the mountainous area at an altitude of 3,000 to 5,000 meters, and in order to hide to escape natural enemies, most of the nesting is chosen in the shrub forest and grassland in the stone gap. The long-tailed woolly rat matures sexually at eight months, has a gestation period of 111 days, and only gives birth to 1 or 2 animals throughout the year, with an average lifespan of about eight to ten years in the wild.
Over the centuries, Totoro has evolved its own habitat. Its coat color has adapted well to the environment and provides the best conditions for survival, evolving a camouflage color that is difficult for predators to distinguish.
All wild totoro cats are grey.
However, in order to satisfy their own desires, after years of artificial breeding, Totoro has a lot of coat color strains.
For example, standard gray, snow white, silver spots, mosaics, beige and so on.
In general, the coat color of mammals is affected by two basic pigments: black and red.
We guess that if we want to survive in the wild and rocky areas, the most effective cover color should be the color of the land and rocks. Red pigment can go from cream to flame color, melanin can range from gray to black, and the existence of both also provides us with the possibility of brown.
Of course, there are also those who are called blue. Take the Russian blue cat, for example, but it's actually gray. Of course, there are albinos of mammals, and albinism does not have any color pigments. It has white coats like snow and red eyes. The albino gene is recessive.
Standard gray, purple, white, silver spots, blue gray, black are affected by melanin. Beige and pink are influenced by red pigments. Of course, there were also many colors after genetic mutations.
Wilson White Wilson White
The earliest totoro gene mutation was discovered in 1955 by the American Blanca Wilson Blanca Wilson, and all of these white variant genes are called wilson white Wilson white.
Note that this gene is a dominant gene, not an albino gene. The albino gene is recessive later will be said.
Wilson white is characterized by black eyes and black or grey ears.
The rest of the body is snow-white, allowing a little gray to appear at the base of the tail.
Although this is an isotopic gene, but with two wilson white to mate once the homozygote wilson white will undoubtedly die, that is to say, the so-called super wilson white is a fatal genetic defect, so there are small partners who like totoro trying to breed should pay attention to Oh.
wilson white
Tower Beige Tammy
(Tower Beige) Tammy, also known as beige, is a dominant gene that first appeared in the hands of a breeder named Ned Jensen in 1955.
As his name suggests, the beige gene gradually deepens the coat color of this totoro from the root to the tip of the coat from a light beige color.
The beige gene is a genetic mutation of the standard gray, and the shade of the coat color depends on the presence of one or two alleles. That is to say, the heterozygotes of one beige gene are darker in color, and the homozygous of the two rice genes are lighter in color.
Tower Beige X Tower Beige is the golden Super Tower Beige fried chicken rice, which is also known as gold or pudding.
Tammy
Super Tammy (Golden)
Space is limited, and other strains of genes are listed in the next chapter.
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Author: Heart Moon Fox; Article from: Crawling Boundary; Follow Me to Take You to Learn More About Reptiles.