| The skull of a capybara is very much like that of a guinea pig, except that it is very much larger and more robust. |
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| Finally, the battle between the microchip and the guinea pig has evened up. |
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| The guinea pig had already been domesticated by the Inca of Peru, for whom it was an important food. |
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| It seems like a lot of people think that a guinea pig or a rabbit is a good starter pet for a child. |
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| However, before Jake and Squeekie's story, there is much to consider before any guinea pig owner decides to have their boar neutered. |
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| He would like his name to be placed on a prominent notice board emphasising that he was keen to be the first guinea pig. |
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| In guinea pig airways, anandamide stimulates sensory nerves by inducing depolarization. |
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| It seems that not all rodents in those days were cute little balls of fur like your daughter's guinea pig. |
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| Veterinarian Astrid Behr also recommends a bird as a pet rather than a guinea pig or other smaller animal. |
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| The dorsal psalterium of the guinea pig was electrophysiologically studied with a view to possible commissural fiber groups and their properties. |
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| They are definitely not rats or squirrels, and are only vaguely like a guinea pig or a chinchilla. |
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| At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. |
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| I was a real, live guinea pig, ready to be flung into my very own jungle gym of plastic tubes and shavings. |
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| The animals, a meerkat and a guinea pig, cannot bear to be apart from each other and whine uncontrollably when they are parted. |
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| And even though the guinea pig was ten times the size of a normal guinea pig, it accepted the carrot hungrily and walked off happily. |
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| In addition we are raising eight sheep, a llama, a dog, two rabbits, a rat, and a guinea pig. |
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| The collection of paintings include performing horses, elephants, sheep, hyenas, snakes, birds and a guinea pig. |
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| The way I was planning this spiritual experiment, I would have been the sole guinea pig. |
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| The worst was when you became a guinea pig for a hazardous experiment, and not even the lightest punishment was endurable. |
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| Maya is a crested, dark-eyed gold guinea pig, or cavy, and she's the pride and joy of owner and breeder Keith Lakin. |
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| The early study of carbon dioxide also gave rise to the expression to be a guinea pig, meaning to subject oneself to an experiment. |
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| To find out how it worked, my husband David, a senior manager of an internet company, volunteered to be the guinea pig for Just the Job. |
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| There was an uncleaned guinea pig cage in the corner, with a sleeping guinea pig living in its own filth. |
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| Walker volunteered to act as a human guinea pig for these experiments, as did 400m runner Mark Richardson and one other athlete. |
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| The brief prologue to Love is a Treasure shows a veterinarian caring for a badly injured guinea pig. |
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| These duvets can also be used to insulate rabbit and guinea pig hutches. |
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| I decided to conduct an experiment, as both scientist and guinea pig. |
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| Closer in appearance to the guinea pig than the reviled rat, the mammal likely fed on sea grass in ancient lagoons near the northwestern Venezuelan coast. |
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| The domestic guinea pig, Cavia porcellus, now found worldwide in captivity, has been bred for meat for more than three thousand years in South America. |
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| As the water rose, the guinea pig rose too, although it ordinarily doesn't stand around on its hind legs, but rather squats like a hare or a rabbit. |
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| They were followed by a guinea pig, a hedgehog, a manatee, and a whale, which are considered to be the core member species of the mammalian radiation. |
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| A cancer sufferer from Greater Manchester, for whom all conventional treatments have failed, has volunteered to become the world's first guinea pig for a possible new cure. |
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| Meanwhile Fiona patiently served time as his food-tasting guinea pig and joined him on rare holidays to France to sample that nation's culinary secrets. |
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| Lucy was beginning to feel like a guinea pig for a scientific experiment. |
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| Soon dubbed the Wild Child by the media, the girl became a guinea pig for researchers who wanted to see how much human behaviour is learned and how much is instinctual. |
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| Terbutaline sulfate was added to organ baths containing spirally cut guinea pig trachea and right auricle. |
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| At this time the guinea pig also played the role of the evil spirit collector in traditional healing rituals. |
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| Hurry up before this alien recruiter counts too much on you to become its guinea pig. |
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| It was also a guinea pig for a NATO in search of a new mission and sadly also one for all those who feed off violence and war. |
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| We must avoid a situation in which the consumer acts as some sort of paying guinea pig when it comes to new products on the market. |
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| Take a brightly coloured object, such as a highlighter pen, and ask a human guinea pig to simply stare straight ahead. |
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| Make sure your guinea pig is sufficiently protected against the sun and rain. |
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| If you are thinking of adopting a guinea pig, please make sure they are not a novelty pet. |
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| The project took the manufacturing sector in metal works and mechanics as its guinea pig. |
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| The San Francisco Examiner had no problem asking young Lewis Lapham to be an LSD guinea pig for the sake of journalism. |
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| Happy to be the guinea pig, he is perpetually remodeling his house. |
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| Agriculture was based on systems of hillside terracing and included the potato, quinoa, and maize, and the guinea pig, domestic dog, llama, and alpaca. |
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| We have two kids, a dog, a guinea pig, and a South African claw-toed frog. |
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| Closely related to the guinea pig and weighing in between 77 and 150 pounds, these creatures are the largest rodents in the world. |
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| With no suitable animals to domesticate, apart from the llama and the guinea pig, and no draught animals to pull the plough, the development of more mixed farming was gradual. |
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| The food was a mixture of commercial tropical fish food, commercial guinea pig chow, freeze-dried tubifex worms, finely sifted silt, and puppy vitamins. |
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| And only when they had taken a closer look at the almost complete skeleton did they realize they had a caviomorph, cousin to the modern cavy or guinea pig. |
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| I'm going to be a guinea pig in a kind of experiment, he tells me. |
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| Influence of microsomal enzyme inducers on the reactivity of the isolated guinea pig seminal vesicle to angiotensin and tyramine. |
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| Government should not condition access to experimental treatment on an individual's consent, which is essentially involuntary, to serve as a guinea pig. |
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| Guinea pigs are used in the cuisine of Cuzco, Peru, in dishes such as cuy al horno, baked guinea pig. |
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| Figure 2 gives experimental examples of otoacoustically traced, acoustically induced, cochlear perturbations in a human and a guinea pig ear. |
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| We will not be able to use European industry, which has been dealing with its own affairs well, as a guinea pig again unless the system is operated in a slip-shod fashion. |
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| They should send a drawing of their ideal pet palace for a gerbil, guinea pig, hamster, mouse, rabbit or rat. |
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| Whether they be a player, a guinea pig, a security guard, a walker or an executioner, the role that is assigned to viewers serves the purposes of the artist. |
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| A wide range of other species such as horse, water buffalo, llama, rabbit and guinea pig are used as livestock in some parts of the world. |
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| It induces regulation of spontaneous activity and increases synchronization between electrophysiological spikes and contractions in isolated guinea pig strips of colon and ileum. |
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| Ascorbic acid is also not synthesized by at least two species of Caviidae, the capybara and the guinea pig. |
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| We are the guinea pig for all of the bases in this country. |
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| It's all come down hand in hand, and you have used us as a guinea pig. |
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| Similar findings were seen in anesthetized cat and guinea pig. |
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| In traditional guinea pig tests submitted for regulatory review, the dose at which responses occur is not generally recorded, although in some cases, such information is available. |
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| It resembles the cavy and guinea pig of the family Caviidae. |
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| Using membrane preparations of whole rat brain and guinea pig intestine, trimebutine maleate was shown to bind to opiate receptors with moderate affinity. |
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| The Door, in turn, was eager to be a guinea pig. |
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| A SUN-STARVED Scottish strawberry farmer is moonlighting as a guinea pig for supermarket bosses. |
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| A series of projects were thus developed to help reduce malnutrition, providing pig and guinea pig livestock, and improved seed stock for crops such as soy, sorghum, beans and peanuts. |
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| So the book divides itself between feel-good, supercozy moments of domesticity and the scientific experiment in which Mr. May became a guinea pig. |
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| Other species of Leontice like Leontice leontopetalum and its alkaloid petaline chloride has been tested on guinea pig isolated smooth muscle and heart. |
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| Additionally, by using the isolated guinea pig ileum model, the effects of Byrsonima crassifolia extracts on the enteric nervous system were evaluated. |
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| The cathedral is known for a Cusco School painting of the Last Supper depicting Jesus and the twelve apostles feasting on guinea pig, a traditional Andean delicacy. |
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| Assessing the therapeutic efficacy of oxime therapies against percutaneous organophosphorus pesticide and nerve agent challenges in the Hartley guinea pig. |
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