How Guinea Pigs Got Their Name

Did you know that we’re not actually sure why guinea pigs are called that? Guinea pigs were likely brought to Europe by Spanish explorers in the 1500s and at that time the word ‘guinea’ was sometimes used to describe things that were far across the sea, so this may be one reason why it was used in the name. Perhaps even ports such as Guiana in South America or Guinea in Africa may have inspired it... One debunked theory from the past is that the word guinea came from the English gold coin of the

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