Ed Stoddard is a Johannesburg-based journalist with a focus on resource industries, wildlife, economics, and the environment in Africa. A Reuters correspondent for 24 years, he is now a regular ...

Lucky the chorus girl who can persuade her wealthy benefactor to buy her a chinchilla wrap, one of the softest, most beautiful, most expensive of furs, also one of the least durable, one of the rarest ...

Chinchillas, docile South American rodents with big, round ears and soft, thick fur, are about as sensitive to sounds as humans. That’s one reason why medical researchers use them to study hearing ...

Philip Joris needed chinchillas. The Belgium-based hearing researcher turned to the South American rodents six years ago, excited about studying their auditory capabilities, so similar to our own. But ...

GENESEE COUNTY, MI - A chinchilla twitched its nose as wide-eyed and excited children began petting its fluffy body and bushy tail. This was the first of several exotic animal encounters that ...

Mickey the chinchilla, when perched on the shoulder of his owner, turns heads on the streets of Scarborough with his large ears and small furry body. "He's relaxed," his owner Sean Adams says. "I've ...

Chinchillas’ teeth are open-rooted, allowing them to grow throughout their lives. A chinchilla’s set of incisors grows an average of two to three inches every year. Overgrown chinchilla teeth can ...