Is a guinea pig a rodent and a rat?

Answer 1

Scientists are increasing becoming to realise that Cavies or Guinea piga as they are more commonly known as, are in fact not rodents at all, and may even be in a family all of their own. They have sharp incisor teeth like a rodent, but unlike a rodent, they also have molars and premolars set far back into their little skulls. Also, the blood protein make-up of a cavy, is unlike that of any other rodent.

Answer 2

Yes they are; they have hair, are warm blooded, have a five-chamber heart, give birth to live young, and nurse young with milk.

Pigs are classified as Cetartiodactyla, Suidae,Sus scrofa and are most closely related to the other cloven-hoofed mammals: deer, cows, goats, and sheep, and just somewhat more distantly to whales and dolphins.

Yes they are a part of the Mammalian kingdom.

Answer 3

A guinea pig is both a rodent and a Mammal. The large category mammal includes animals that are warm-blooded vertebrate animals, that have, in the female, milk-secreting organs for feeding the young. Even you are a mammal. Within the mammal category is a smaller category called rodents. Rodents are small gnawing mammals with large incisor teeth that continue growing throughout the animal's life, e.g. a mouse, rat, squirrel, or marmot and even the pet guinea pig.

Answer 4

Yes, the pig is derived from the rodent family.

Answer 5

No, guinea pigs are classified as cavies.
Yes.

Answer 6

YES. They are in the sub-species of Pachydermata; Peccaries. Horses and Tapirs are also part of the species, Pachydermata, as well as Hippopotamidae.

Answer 7

No, a pig is a mammal. Unlike reptiles, which are cold blooded, pigs are warm blooded, give live birth to their babies, and nurse them with milk.

Answer 8

Similar. They are both rodents, and are related.

Answer 9

It is a rodent, belonging to the group of nibbling mammals, the order of Rodentia, which includes mice, squirrels and beavers

Answer 10

No pigs are mammals.