Degu

• Female degus can become pregnant immediately after giving birth, so it is recommended to separate males from females right after the female's pregnancy to avoid repeated pregnancies and subsequent death of the female and offspring. Degu pregnancies last from 87 to 93 days, which is a long period for rodents.
• The arrangement of the cheek teeth in degus allows them to gnaw through hard materials and spit out particles through the diastema without taking them into the mouth. This arrangement ensures the precise positioning of each tooth relative to the others.
• Degus have strong hind legs and can jump up to a height of 1 meter. In the wild, only 50 % of degus live to be one year old.
• Degus can cause damage to agriculture by eating cultivated plants and ruining orchards, food storage facilities. They are capable of damaging various agricultural objects.
• Degus have short front paws with four fingers and a rudimentary thumb. The teeth of young degus are white, but with age they become bright orange due to plants in their diet.