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DAILY PHOTO: A Bad Place to Be a Guinea Pig

By Berniegourley @berniegourley
Taken in Arequipa, Peru in July of 2010

Taken in Arequipa, Peru in July of 2010

If you think this guy is eyeballing the camera suspiciously, it may be because it’s a resident of the Peruvian Andes. If you don’t know what I mean, check out this article from the National Geographic (particularly item #2.)

Anywhere else and he’d be someone’s fluffy little pet… or I guess a lab test animal–given the colloquial meaning of “Guinea Pig.” (So, maybe things could be worse than to be a Guinea Pig in Arequipa. One could be a Guinea Pig in the lab’s at Pfizer.)

By in Animals, Peru, Pets, photographs, Photos, pictures, Tourism, travel on November 18, 2015.

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