GUINEA PIG

, domesticated form of the cavy, Cavia porcellus, a South American rodent. It is unrelated to the pig; the name may refer to its shrill squeal. Guinea pigs were raised by the Incas and have long been used as food in South America. They were first imported into Europe from Guiana in the 16th cent. There are a number of varieties, some with short, smooth hair and others with longer hair, and a great range of color combinations, including mixtures of black and white and many shades of brown. They have rounded bodies, large heads, and blunt noses and reach a length of 6 to 10 in. (15–25 cm) and a weight of 1 to 2 lb (450–900 grams). Females produce three to five litters, usually of three or four young, per year. The guinea pig's rapid reproductive rate and high resistance to disease make it a valuable laboratory animal; it is used for testing serums and antitoxins and for experiments in genetics and nutrition. It is also sometimes kept as a pet. It is classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Caviidae.

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Arrow Talk: Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History
Book by Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart; Kent State University Press, 2000
Subjects: Ceremonial Exchange--Papua New Guinea--Western Highlands Province, Medlpa (Papua New Guinea People)--Commerce, Medlpa (Papua New Guinea People)--Politics And Government, Political Oratory--Papua New Guinea--Western Highlands Province, Social Change--Papua New Guinea--Western Highlands Province, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Medlpa, Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)--Social Life And Customs
...Two The peoples of the mountains and valleys of Papua New Guinea have a long his- tory of their own indigenous development as gardeners and pig-rearers (Stra- thern and Stewart eds. 98) and a very...such as stone axes, bird feathers, valuable shells, and pigs in exchanges connected with marriage alliances and payments...
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From Stone to Steel: Economic Consequences of a Technological Change in New Guinea
Book by R. F. Salisbury; Melbourne University Press, 1962
Subjects: New Guinea--Economic Conditions, New Guinea--Social Conditions
...valuables box 106 11 Making a presentation at a Pig Feast 107 12 Ritual killing of a pig. Note gerua board to the left 107 FIGURES 1 Siane-speaking and Dene-speaking tribes of the New Guinea Highlands page 8 2 Kinship Terms used by a Male...
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Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference
Book by Deborah B. Gewertz, Frederick K. Errington; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Social Classes--Papua New Guinea--Wewak, Wewak (Papua New Guinea)--Social Conditions
ship of pigs and the staging of feasts...Territory of Papua New Guinea with which What is Wealth...a shop or a store, a pig for a radio set or a guitar...among us in Papua New Guinea. Were the last country...through the jungle like pigs. No. You all just sit...
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Men and "Woman" in New Guinea
Book by L. L. Langness; Chandler & Sharp, 1999
Subjects: Benabena (Papua New Guinea People)--Kinship, Benabena (Papua New Guinea People)--Rites And Ceremonies, Benabena (Papua New Guinea People)--Sexual Behavior, Blood--Symbolic Aspects--Papua New Guinea, Bone--Folklore, Initiation Rites--Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea--Social Life And Customs, Semen--Folklore, Sex Role--Papua New Guinea
...anthropologists to work in the New Guinea Highlands had to be aborted...Barnes, when comparing New Guinea societies to African ones, observed that, "In New Guinea a greater emphasis appears...hesitate to kill a bush-pig. Nor does the warrior think...
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Steel to Stone: A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Book by Jeffrey Clark, Chris Ballard, Michael Nihill; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Europe--Colonies--Oceania, Pangia (Papua New Guinea)--Economic Conditions, Pangia (Papua New Guinea)--Race Relations, Pangia (Papua New Guinea)--Social Life And Customs, Wiru (Papua New Guinea People), Wiru (Papua New Guinea People)--Colonization, Wiru (Papua New Guinea People)--Government Relations, Wiru (Papua New Guinea People)--Material Culture
...Mbuna story, in which there is a failure to distribute pig viscera after a pig-feast at Bumaru, leading a mother to leave with...Southern Highlands, across the Papuan border into New Guinea, where they eventually turned around and headed south...
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Life without Pigs: Recent Subsistence Changes among the Irakia Awa, Papua New Guinea
Journal article by David J. Boyd; Human Ecology, Vol. 29, 2001
Subjects: Food habits--Social aspects, Indigenous peoples--Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea--Food and nutrition, Subsistence economy--Management
...practices is the abandonment of pig husbandry. PIGS AND HIGHLAND SOCIETIES IN NEW GUINEA As is well known, the...the dynamics of some New Guinea Highland pig cycles. In The Use and Management of Pigs in the New Guinea Highlands, Paper presented...
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Women, Pigs, God and Evolution: Social and Economic Change among Kubo People of Papua New Guinea
Journal article by Monica Minnegal, Peter D. Dwyer; Oceania, Vol. 68, 1997
Subjects: Economic development--Social aspects, Indigenous peoples--Papua New Guinea, Social change--Research
...of the local domestic pig population was well within...societies of highlands New Guinea (cf. Kelly 1988...competitive exchange of pigs is a major preoccupation...Production and Disposal of Pigs by Kubo People of Papua New Guinea. Memoirs of the Queensland...Reproductive Status of Domestic Pig Populations in Mainland New Guinea. Journal of Anthropological...
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The "Guinea Pigs" after 60 Years: More Than 70 Years Ago, the United States Conducted a Very Successful Large-Scale Experiment in Progressive Education. How Did It Affect Students over the Decades? and Why Has It Seemed to Be Forgotten?
Journal article by Frederick O. Flener; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 91, 2009
Subjects: Dewey, John--Works, Educators--Works, Progressive education--Research
The "Guinea Pigs" after 60 Years: More Than 70 Years...educational goals of the students. All of the guinea pigs I interviewed felt University Schools...conversations) was typical of all 16 guinea pigs who participated in this study. Most...
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Notes from a Radical Behaviorist: Is It Morally Defensible to Use the Developmentally Disabled as Guinea Pigs?
Journal article by Richard W. Malott; Behavior and Social Issues, Vol. 11, 2002
Subjects: Behavioral sciences, Handicapped people, Social research
Notes from a Radical Behaviorist: Is It Morally Defensible to Use the Developmentally Disabled as Guinea Pigs? by Richard W. Malott Others have argued that we can justify the developmentally disabled spending some of their time as research...
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Pig Men and Women, Big Men and Women: Gender and Production in the New Guinea Highlands
Journal article by Paul Sillitoe; Ethnology, Vol. 40, 2001
Subjects: Herders--Demographic aspects, Pork industry--Demographic aspects, Sexual division of labor--Research, Social structure--Demographic aspects
...Papua New Guinea, pigs, gender, labor, property) Responsibility for pig management is an important...gender relations in New Guinea. The daily work of herding pigs and controlling them...up the singularity of pig production in the New Guinea Highlands. Keeping pigs for long periods is folly...
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magazine articles on: Guinea Pig  - 315 results

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Guinea Pigs
Magazine article by William Speed Weed; Washington Monthly, Vol. 31, November 1999
Subjects: Patients--Research, United States. National Bioethics Advisory Commission--Services
Guinea Pigs. by WILLIAM SPEED WEED When doctors...never allow our citizens to be unwitting guinea pigs in scientific experiments." NBAC resolved...President Clintons wish that no American be a guinea pig, those who want to lose weight, who...
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Weak Regulation Makes Guinea Pig Brits
Magazine article; Consumer Policy Review, Vol. 17, July 2007
Weak Regulation Makes Guinea Pig Brits Americas stringent rules on cosmetic fillers - injectable substances used to reduce wrinkles - mean companies are turning...
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My Brief, Upside-down Career as a Guinea Pig
Magazine article by John F. Stamler; Medical Economics, Vol. 77, April 24, 2000
Subjects: Experiments, Humor, Physicians, United States
My Brief, Upside-down Career as a Guinea Pig by John F. Stamler We admire those pioneering physicians who used their own bodies to test new treatments--those John Hunters...
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Google's Guinea Pigs
Magazine article by Shannon Brownlee, Dave Gilson; Mother Jones, Vol. 34, November 2009
Subjects: Alzheimers disease, Genetics, Pharmaceutical industry, Prostate cancer
Googles Guinea Pigs by Shannon Brownlee , Dave Gilson There must be something wrong with...selling customer information to drugmakers and others in need of human guinea pigs for clinical research. The company hinted at this in July by calling...
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Protecting 'Human Guinea Pigs.'
Magazine article by Richard C. Thompson; FDA Consumer, Vol. 20, December 1986
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine--Safety and security measures, Human medical experimentation--Safety and security measures, Institutional Review Boards--Powers and duties, Medical research--Safety and security measures, Medicine, Experimental--Safety and security measures, United States. Food and Drug Administration--Laws, regulations and rules
Protecting Human Guinea Pigs. by Richard C. Thompson Protecting Human Guinea Pigs Back in the 1930s, some 400 men examined in a public health study were diagnosed as having syphilis. They were not told they had the infection, and they did not...
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Will aeG-ForceAE Make Guinea Pigs Must-Have Pets?
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 27, 2009
Subjects: News agencies, The Associated Press
...real life guinea pigs who need rescuing. Some guinea pig rescue groups...she has a guinea pig that looks like...ForceAE type guinea pigs. I am really...homes have guinea pigs as pets, according...Volunteers from most guinea pig rescue groups...
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Guinea Pigs Need Home; Shelter Caring for More Than 50 Animals
Newspaper article; Tweed Daily News (Tweed Heads, Australia), March 22, 2010
Guinea Pigs Need Home; Shelter...the Tweed Valley Guinea Pig Shelter at the beginning...Through having guinea pigs of my own, I identified...regulation in the guinea pig industry, too many...more information. PIG ESSENTIALS * Guinea pigs need fresh fruit...
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Secret Agent Guinea Pigs? Who Could Resist, Says Bill Nighy
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 31, 2009
...as opposed to a guinea pig rom-com one supposes...up to a crack squad of guinea pigs - Darwin (voiced by Sam...came home with the school guinea pig. We were sitting around...kitchen table watching this guinea pig, says Yeatman, when...
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Secret Agent Guinea Pigs? Who Could Resist, Says Bill Nighy
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 31, 2009
...as opposed to a guinea pig romcom one supposes...up to a crack squad of guinea pigs - Darwin (voiced by Sam...came home with the school guinea pig. We were sitting around...kitchen table watching this guinea pig, says Yeatman, when...
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GUINEA PIG IS HELD OVER CANAL DEATHS; Drug Lord Caught at Railway Station
Newspaper article by Pat Flanagan; The Mirror (London, England), March 10, 2000
GUINEA PIG IS HELD OVER CANAL DEATHS; Drug Lord Caught...capital on a train. The man, known as the Guinea Pig, was lifted by detectives as he got...away for questioning. Gardai believe the Guinea Pig was trying to sneak back to Dublin from...
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encyclopedia articles on: Guinea Pig  - 5 results

 
 
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Guinea Pig
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GUINEA PIG , domesticated form of the...rodent . It is unrelated to the pig; the name may refer to its shrill squeal. Guinea pigs were raised by the Incas and...or four young, per year. The guinea pigs rapid reproductive rate...
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Cavy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAVY ka ve, name for 14 species of South American rodents of the family Caviidae, including the domestic guinea pig . The wild cavies are usually small, rounded, and tailless, with fur of a uniform shade of brown. Nocturnal animals, they...
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Rodent
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...porcupinelike rodents, include the porcupine , capybara, nutria (or coypu), agouti , cavy (including the domestic guinea pig ), mara, and chinchilla , as well as many species whose common names include the term rat (e.g., the South American...
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Inca
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the use of fertilizers. They lacked draft animals, but domesticated animals (the llama, the alpaca, the dog, the guinea pig, and the duck) were important to daily living; from the wild vicuna, fine wool was sheared. Without paper or a system...
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Pygmy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PYGMY or Pigmy both: pig me, a racial designation of dark-skinned people who live in equatorial...who live in Africa, and Negritos, who live in Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and the Philippines: this classification system is rarely used today...


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