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I was always amazed by how utterly stupid an organism can be. And that thing survives somehow in nature.
Not anymore ๐ฌ, they're extinct in the wild.
Piggies are extingt in the wild?!
There is some, as @[email protected] pointed out, but they are very different to the domesticated guinea pig.
Makes sense, you're right.
As to be expected tbh
Isn't that kind of like saying "poodles are extinct in the wild", when there were never wild poodles in the first place?
No way!
Wikipedia suggests montane guinea pig as a wild ancestor.