Mountain Cavies 🐾
Species Profile
Microcavia
Mountain Cavies
Microcavia ( mountain cavies ) is a genus of rodents in the family Caviidae. They are unique within their family in that their premolar teeth do not grow and replace the original deciduous cheek teeth until after the animal is born; in other genera this occurs in the womb.
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