Guinea pigs may be exciting in the movies, but for Shannon Cauthen, the pleasure they give in real life is just the opposite. “They’re very soothing,” says Cauthen, who runs the Cavy Care guinea pig ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Audubon Zoo recently welcomed a trio of ...

Learn more about these communicative and gregarious rodents. Laura Moss is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience writing about science, nature, culture, and the environment. Guinea pigs ...

A 2-week-old Patagonian cavy is the latest addition to the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Central Park Zoo. The yet to be named pup joins parents and older sister in the Tisch Children’s Zoo. Though ...

It may seem a prestigious post for a rodent, but the guinea pigs that are fixtures in elementary school classrooms today were once ambassadors from a new land. The third-ever guinea pig skeleton found ...

Guinea pigs may be exciting in the movies, but for Shannon Cauthen, the pleasure they give in real life is just the opposite. "They're very soothing," says Cauthen, who runs the Cavy Care guinea pig ...