Are chinchillas wild or are they gineticly created by scientist? If they are created, what animal combination?

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Chinchillas come from Chile. They started off in the 1500s as being sold for fur and later (much later) became popular pets.
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they are wild, but now most are farmed for their fur

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Chinchillas come from the Andes, of South America it is a fact. They're not created by scientists, though breeders do mutate their fur into different colors by mating them with other chinchilla colors, but chinchillas are from the Andes, and come from the class of mammalia. ^ ^

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Chinchillas are from the Andes mountains in South America. only a dozen or so were brought to North America after they were first discovered by a north american explorer. in the wild they will eat wild grasses and drink dew off plants. they are currently classified as rodents, though it is being constested by some experts.
in captivity, chinchillas are bred for certian colors that would be much less frequent naturally, such as black velvet chinchillas...these colors are the more expensive. the standard color for a chinchilla is a medium brownish-gray. it takes about 120 chinchillas to make a fur coat, which have thankfully decresed in popularity in favor of synthetic fur.