Learning Record Form For Research ONLY Name: Mui Pimchanok Temmart

The purpose of this form is to document your learning as you are researching.
What you should see is that learning is a process. Your goal should be to update this form on a daily basis as you work and find out additional
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Include the information you have learned, with the main ideas summarized in your own words. If you cant summarize it in your own words, you
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 Question Section: Things you know that you dont know
1. Between guinea pig and hamster, which one is smarter?
2. Between guinea pig and hamster, which one is easier to
take care?
3. What are some sign of fear that the guinea pig shows?
4. Does guinea pigs have a unique body language?
5. What is guinea pig favourites color?
6. Differentiation between male and female guinea pig
Things you know and things you learned.
- Learning is a hard process that requires a lot of time.
- Animal should be familiar with the owner first of the
guinea pig in order to run the maze successfully.
- Some sign of fear of the guinea pig: Shaking, biting its
nail
Question Section: Things you didnt know that you dont know
1. Why guinea pig cannot synthesise its own vitamin C?
2. How to reduce fear in guinea pig?
3. Does guinea pig have a unique mating sign?
4. Any differences between having difference gender of
guinea pig and same gender of guinea pig as a pet?
- As specified by petguineapigcare, guinea pig is a clever
animal and tend to be very socialize animal as well. In
contrast, hamster is a animal that tend to be alone and
not interact with the others. Hamster actives during
that night while guinea pig is also socialise during the
day. Thus, our group decided to choose guinea pig due
to the factors of the hamster.
Sources: http://petguineapigcare.com
http://pethamstercare.com
http://www.animalbehavior.net/LIBRARY/GuineaPig/EFGPR/GuineaPig_fearfulness.htm

Things you know and things you learned.

Food
Guinea pig - Guinea pig likes hay or dry green leaves.
- Guinea pigs have a good sense of smell and - Guinea pigs body cannot synthesise its own
likes to make some noises such as whistling. vitamin c thus, dietary that contains vitamin c
- Guinea pig cannot recognise their owner. is required. Another option is that provide the
- Clever vitamin c tablets or drops.
- socialise animal
- require at least 2 square feet for the cage Health
- Larger area = will be happy - When the Guinea pig becomes ill, their health
- require a bedding at the bottom of the can become worse rapidly.
cage such as sawdust - Some signs of illness
- water bottle is recommended because - Hair loss
guinea pig would like to play in the food/ - loss of weight
water dishes - sneezing
- Guinea pig is a clean animal and would like to - diarrhoea
have a clean and neat cage. - not energetic
- Chew sticks/ toys are good things to put in the - hide in the corner and play less than
cage because it would make the guinea pig normal
feels happy. - Common death in guinea pigs are caused by
- Private area is also required because the pneumonia. It is caused by the bacteria infection
guinea pig also want a safe place to hide such which the guinea pigs may start to show some
as the hiddey hut sign of illness such as sneezing.
Sources: https://www.thespruce.com/guinea-pig-vocalizations-and-body-language-1238882

Things you know and things you learned.

Guinea pigs body language

Hamster
- Guinea pigs sometimes make some noises such as
- Minimum are for the cage: 15 inches long and
squeaks.
12 inches tall
- Noises that the guinea pig makes:
- Like to dig and hide under the sawdust
- Wheeking: shows that guinea pig is excited or
- Water/food dishes is required but, water bottle
waiting for the food, call to grab the attention of
is better because the hamster would like to
the owner
play in the dishes.
- purring: High pitch purr shows that the guinea pig
- Sleeping zone/ safe place to hide
is annoying
- Toys: exercise wheel,tunnels
- Short purr: fear
- Rumbling: a sound that makes by the male guinea
Guinea pigs sign of fear pig to attract the female and usually shows with
- make some noises the mating dance
- shows the white eyes - Biting the teeth: aggressive
- biting its teeth - Chirping: A sound that is least understood
- shaking body - Whining: annoying and dont like something that
- freeze the other guinea pig do
- running to hide in the corner - Shrieking: fear, pain, hurt
- When we want to pick up the guinea pig, if it -Body language
lower its head and ears then, the guinea pig is -Mating dance: attract the female during the
scared of us. mating seasons
- running away from people especially, - Showing the teeth: aggressive, get away
foreigners human!
Sources: https://www.thespruce.com/guinea-pig-vocalizations-and-body-language-1238882
http://www.guinealynx.info/sexing.html

Things you know and things you learned.

Guinea pigs body language

- Pop corning: jumping up and down same as the popcorn
popping up when it is cooked. Usually, see in young
guinea pig during when they are happy and excited.
Young guinea pigs often jump higher than old guinea
pigs.
- Freezing: scared of the environment
- sniffing: check the surrounding or getting to know the
others guinea pig
- touching noses: friendly sign between guinea pigs
- aggressive actions: raising its head, showing its teeth
- strutting: aggressive sign
- scent marking: urinate on the things to show its
territory
- running away from being the owner when they are Female guinea pigs: have a Y-shape opening and seals
being picked up: fear of the owner, a defence sign with the membrane
Male guinea pigs: Larger than female and have a small
Guinea pigs favourite color nipples compare to female guinea pig
- yellow food bowl and blue water bottle is the best -when sexually mature, have scrotal
according to the experiment that measured the amount pouches that can obviously see
of water and food eaten by guinea pig in the experiment
Sources: http://guineapigcareonline.weebly.com/male-or-female.html
http://www.animalbehavior.net/LIBRARY/GuineaPig/EFGPR/GuineaPig_fearfulness.htm
Things you know and things you learned.
Differences in gender (having the guinea pig as a pet)
- 2 males guinea pigs
- If both of them are treating together since
babies then, there would be no problem for
living together
- If not living together since babies, some
guidelines are required by the specialist
- 2 female guinea pigs
- If both females receive the same amount of
food, attention, and care then, both guinea pig
will not fight with each other
- Difference gender
- One male and one female would be fine but,
putting in the same cage can increase the
chance of breeding
- More than one male but only one female could
increase the chance of fighting for female
Female traits
- Loving, caring and friendly
- required some attention from the owners
Male traits
- Energetic and friendly
Reducing the fear in guinea pig
- Positive interactions with your guinea pig is required
in order to reduce the fear and it quite takes time a
lot
- the treats must be ready
- reducing fearful of human in guinea pig can be
learned by the process of graded counter
conditioning.
- Ex. Let one person stands in front of the door
and treat the guinea pig with the food
- Later, the guinea pig already knows that the
foreigners will not harm them
- Then, allow the foreigner to coming closer
(maximum 3 steps) and later, treat the guinea
pig with some food
- repeat this step again and again
- this step is a long process
- The owner must be patient and treat the guinea
pig carefully and gently. Do not shows any sign
of aggressive to the guinea pig
Sources: http://www.petmd.com/exotic/conditions/cardiovascular/c_ex_gp_vitamin_c_deficiency
https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/401/why-do-humans-not-produce-vitamin-c-like-other-mammals

Things you know and things you learned.

Vitamin C Deficiency in Guinea pig

- As same as human, guinea pigs also lack of vitamin c Mating behaviour of guinea pigs
because they cannot synthesise their own vitamin C. - Guinea pigs have a mating dance in both male and
- Human lacks of the GULO (gulonolactone oxidase) female.
gene because of the mutation which finally lack of - They will make some noises which is known as
ability to synthesise the protein. The GULO is an motorboating.
enzyme that drive the chemical reaction to occur and - They will swing their hip back and fourth and female
the final product is the vitamin C or ascorbic acid. In will also do the mating dance as well
the same way, the guinea pigs also lack of the GULO
gene as well. http://jackiesguineapiggies.com/guineapigbehaviour.html
- Lack of vitamin C in guinea pigs can cause a serious
illness such as lack of ability to synthesise collagen or
other tissue formation
- Scurvy: Lack of vitamin C
- Symptoms: weak and not energetic as before
Walking strangely (swollen joints)
- Blood clotting problems
- skin and joints problems
- common in guinea pig
- Causes: Lack of food that contain vitamin c such as
carrot
- Diagnosis: Blood check would help to make sure the
vitamin c level in the blood