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Although, instead of gorging on pepperoni pizza and living in a sewer the Chinchilla Tree Rat prefers feeding on…you know what, we don’t actually know what they feed on but I am guessing they lead a herbivorous life. This would make sense since they spend most of their time running around the canopy of the trees surrounding Macchu Picchu. In fact, the Chinchilla Tree Rat has even developed a specialized big toe, which is somewhat similar to ours…well unless you have one of those incredibly large big toes (I often get laughed at for my big toes) then they probably aren’t that similar. Regardless, these specialized toes allow the Chinchilla Tree Rat to easily grip tree branches and ultimately lets them live a life in the trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before we get started with today’s Wild Fact, I wanted to point out that we are officially down to the last 100 animals. If there is an animal that you would like to see featured please let us know in the comments or on the Wild Facts Facebook Page.\u00a0 Now it is time to move on to the newly discovered and totally adorable Chinchilla Tree Rat! Cool Things You Need To Know The Chinchilla Tree Rat was only discovered during a couple of research trips during 1997 and 1998 – yep, we have only known about this species for a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,4024],"tags":[348,3562,3563,3561,3564,413,4025,1888],"yoast_head":"\n
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