4.7 (6 votes)
Cuteness alert! Walk-around of the CollectA Wildlife 88722 Long-tailed Chinchilla, Chinchilla lanigera Bennett, 1829; originally produced in 2015. It’s quite a tiny figure, snout-vent length would be around 50 mm if the figure was stretched out and the tail adds another 28 mm so the scale is approx. 1:5. Threatened by poaching, hunting, and habitat destruction the Long-tailed Chinchilla’s wild population is in serious trouble, a 1996 survey yielded only 42 remaining colonies in Chile but the decline has continued since then and IUCN considers Chinchilla lanigera “Critically Endangered”.
