Chinchillas are active and curious little rodents that originated in the Andes Mountains of South
America. They weigh in at only about 400-1000 grams (a little less than 1 pound up to a little more than
2 lbs). In the wild they consist of just one color, the standard grey, and live in colonies. Our domestic
chinchillas have been selectively bred to have numerous beautiful color mutations with only a couple
of their colors being true recessives. Most of the colors are incompletely dominant so you can get some
really pretty blended colors with them as well.