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Igel

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5. That's a trip.

Reply to Hestia (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 24, 2015, 07:58 PM

Feb 2015

AFAIK, guinea pigs were unknown outside of the New World until well after 1500.

They're native to the Andes, not to Africa a millennium pre-Columbus.

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