Researcher And Author
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May 19th, 2009
Domestication Of Guinea Pigs From A Southern Peru- Northern Chile Wild Species And Their Middle Pre-Columbian Mummies
Domestication of Guinea Pigs. University of California Publications in Zoology. 2006.
Cuyes, cavies, or “guinea pigs” (Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus 1758)) are small mammals of South American origin (Wagner and Manning, 1976), still kept today as “criollos” (Chauca, 1997) by the native peoples of the Andes for food and cultural practices… Read more
Jane Wheeler is Vice President for Research, CONOPA (Coordinadora de Investigaci ón y Desarrollo de Camélidos Sudamericanos), Lima, Perú. She holds degrees from American University, Cambridge University, and the University of Michigan, and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Paris. For more than 30 years she has conducted broad based research on the South American camelids.