12/04/2025
Happy World Wildlife Conservation Day! Chinchillas were first brought to America in 1923 by a mining engineer named Mathias F. Chapman who fell in love with the species while in the mountains of Chile. Almost all chinchillas here today descended from the 11 he brought 100 years ago!
Be sure to add a chinchilla to your next event!
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