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Pocket Pet Vocab 2
Pocket Pet Unit Vocab part 2 Gerbil - Chinchilla
Term | Definition |
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Agouti | Mixture of two or more colors |
Jirds | Burrowing rodents with short bodies and hunched appearance |
Kit (gerbil) | A young gerbil |
Sire | Male / Dad |
Dam | Female / Mom |
Diurnal | Sleep during the night and active during the day |
Hob | Intact male ferret |
Jill | Intact female ferret |
Gib | Neutered male ferret |
Sprite | Spayed female ferret |
Kit (ferret) | Young ferret |
Kindling (ferrets) | Giving birth to ferrets |
Mask | Black coloring around eyes on the face |
Hoglet | Young hedgehog |
Herd (hedgehog) | Group of hedgehogs |
Self-anointed | Frothing at mouth, arching head back over shoulders, deposit frothy saliva on quills |
Quills | Spines located over back and body |
Kit (chinchilla) | Baby chinchilla |
Litter (chinchilla) | Group of newborn chinchillas |
Dust bath | Special dust substances they roll in to cleanse fur. It hydrates and cleans. |
Offspring | Babies / children |