Do Guinea Pigs Have A Higher Iq Than Humans

Will other female guinea pigs help to take care of new babies that are not their own?

Make sure you get the boar out of the cage before she gives birth. Guinea Pigs are extremely fertile for a few hours right after they give birth. The boar will mate with her immediately after she gives birth. And she will get pregnant. Don't make this mistake. A back to back pregnancy is extremely hard on a sow, especially while she's nursing a litter. She will have a riskier pregnancy and could possibly die too.If always left my sows together. If I had 2 sows that had litters at the same time I noticed that the babies would nurse from whichever sow they could. One of my sows, Brownie, refused all babies except her own but the others used to interchangeably nurse each other's babies.

What are the pros and cons of guinea pigs vs rats as pets? Also which is less expensive to care for?

I have not had rats as pets before; I’ve avoided them because of their short life span, which I felt would be too depressing for me. However, they sound like really fun pets from what I’ve heard.Guinea pigs have a longer life span; most rats won’t live past three years, and well-cared for guinea pigs can live between five to seven years.Guinea pigs are crepuscular (most active at dawn and dusk) while rats are nocturnal (most active at night).Guinea pigs probably cost more to care for, given they are larger (need more food and space) and live longer. Since they’re larger, they have more poop and pee, so there’s more cleaning involved. They also need a bigger space. Both rats and guinea pigs should really have a friend of the same species as they’re both social animals. (Plus I think it’s more fun to have a pair and get to watch them interact with each other and talk at each other.)Both can be trained, but I think it’s probably easier to train a rat than a guinea pig.If you do get a pet, please do budget for vet bills. It’s not really fair to a pet to own it but not be willing to spend money on it when it gets sick.Both are adoptable! There are guinea pig and rat rescues in many areas, so check around before buying from a pet store. I like adopting from rescues because you can talk to people that are really familiar with the type of animal you’re thinking of adopting and they can give you a better feel for whether you’d like to have a pair of guinea pigs or a pair of rats.

When should one start to handle baby guinea pigs? What happens if you do it too soon?

When should one start to handle baby guinea pigs? What happens if you do it too soon?The mother will reject the baby, then the babies will die from not getting mothers milk.I found best to wait till they are 2 days old.I used to breed guinea pigs, I write from my experience with guinea pigs.My guinea pigs had 6 litters. (but not all from the same guinea pig).Be extremely careful and gentle with the babies.Hold them on your lap, close to the round, in case they jump out of your arms, so the do not have far to fall.Cut nails short before holding the baby guinea pigs, so that your nails do not spike them. Otherwise, wear thick rubber gloves.Wash your hands before and after holding them.Do not hold them for too long, as the mother may worry about them, and the babies may feel distresses from missing their mother.

Our guinea pig had 3 babies. How often does a 2 day old baby guinea pig need milk?

I used to breed guinea pigs. I would not advise any one to breed guinea pigs unless they have in-depth knowledge and experience of them. I resued a female guinea pig who was pregnant. When I went in to my spare room where I kept her in a large hutch with a partition (they should always have a partition for warmth, darkness and security). I found her dead and 2 live babies, in shock and huddled up to her.It was a horrible shock. I had to feed them every 2 hours with goats milk. I used a small spoon as they can choke easily using a pippett or a syringe. I did that 24/7 for 4 weeks. They survived. I was knackered.It's true that guinea piglets can eat solids soon after birth BUT they need their mother's milk, as I said, they cannot make vitamin c. Goats milk has very little lactose and guinea pigs are lactose intolerant so never give them human baby milk or cows milk. It will kill them.

Which animal is more intelligent? Pigs or dogs?

Pigs are smarter, but it’s hard for us to accept this because dogs have more in common with us socially.It is much easier for us to communicate with dogs, and much easier for them to emote to us and vice versa. We’ve been practicing for millennia.In fact, the dog-human bond is actually part of why pigs are smarter… dogs lost about 20% of their cerebral cortex in the process of domestication as they passed off more and more of the thinking jobs to us.… interestingly, we lost 10% of our olfactory and auditory apparatus during the same process, which means that from an evolutionary standpoint, dogs actually arguably domesticated us, more than the other way around (the arrangement saves them more of their energy than it saves us of ours - they get a better deal, technically).Anyway, because communication between us and dogs is so much stronger, the fact that (most) dogs are a bit dumber than (most) pigs is hard for us to detect in casual observation.It’s a bit like how wolves are smarter than dogs, but it’s hard to teach them any tricks, because “what the f*ck is this hairless ape doing waving his f*cking arms around?” (though you can teach pigs.)Other unexpectedly intelligent animals include Ravens and the Octopus, the former of which has a complex verbal language capable of describing human faces reliably over multiple generations of birds, and the latter of which is capable of incredibly complex problem solving, long-term planning and tool use.