Chinchilla

== Taming ==
Chinchillas can be tamed from a tropical rainforest or tropical swamp and farmed for their valuable, insulating, and beautiful furs.
== Summary ==
== Analysis ==
Chinchillas are most notable for their fur. While they are small and rare animals, chinchillas breed rapidly, and can produce a surprising amount of meat and leather. Should you get a breeding pair, they can make profitable pen animals.
Chinchilla's main competitor are guinea pigs, which produce a similarly valuable hide. Guinea pigs aren't pen animals, so they require constant taming upkeep. However, guinea pigs can nuzzle colonists and can be used as fodder in combat.
== Slaughtering ==
When slaughtered, a chinchilla yields meat and leather as a baby; meat and as a juvenile; or meat and leather as an adult. 1 meat is worth 0.05 nutrition. 
Adult chinchillas consume nutrition per day, and a female chinchilla creates an average offspring per day.
=== Meat ===
* When offspring are slaughtered as babies, a female chinchilla produces nutrition of meat per day, for nutrition efficiency.
* When offspring are slaughtered as adults, offspring consume more nutrition for an average of more nutrition per day. This results in nutrition of meat per day, for nutrition efficiency.
When considering a 1:1 ratio of males:females, nutrition falls to (baby) or (adult). But when considering a 1:3 ratio of males:females, nutrition rises back to (baby) or (adult).
=== Leather ===
Female chinchillas produce:
* Baby slaughter: fur per day, or fur per 1 unit nutrition.
* Adult slaughter: fur per day, or fur per 1 unit nutrition.
When considering a 1:1 ratio of males:females, fur lowers to per 1 unit nutrition (baby), or per 1 unit nutrition (adult). Like with meat, a higher ratio of females increases efficiency.
Interestingly, the choice of whether to slaughter chinchillas as babies or adults varies as the proportion of females to males changes, with adult slaughter becoming more optimal as the proportion of males increases. This can be thought of as being due to the nutrition consumption of the males overpowering the benefit of not having to feed the offspring. Baby slaughter becomes preferable as the ratio of females:males rises above 2.4:1 for meat optimisation, or 2:1 for leather optimisation.
=== Trade ===
Chinchilla fur is highly valuable, beautiful, and cold resistant. Of these uses, beauty is unlikely to make a meaningful impact. Chinchilla fur isn't great for protection, other than cold insulation. As chinchillas are found in tropical biomes, cold insulation is unlikely to be relevant. Thus, the main value of their fur, is money.
With a 1:1 ratio of males:females, chinchillas produce fur per 1 unit nutrition. 1 unit of nutrition is equal to 20 hay, which can be grown in tiles of haygrass crop. The same tiles of psychoid plant could create psychoid leaves per day. 
Psychoid leaves are worth silver when turned into flake. With 1:1 female/male slaughter, the chinchilla fur would be worth silver unprocessed. 
Efficiency can increase for a number of reasons:
* When you have more females than males, chinchillas are more efficient per unit nutrition. You can support 5:1 ratio of females:males easily.
* Chinchillas can graze, which saves the work of having to sow crops in the first place.
* Fur can be turned into dusters or formal vests for even more value.
Note that chinchilla fur is then penalized by the butcher's Butchery Efficiency (dependent on Cooking skill) and the butchering penalty from difficulty.
== Training ==
== Health ==
== Gallery ==
Chinchilla east.png|Facing east
Chinchilla north.png|Facing north
Chinchilla south.png|Facing south
Dessicated chinchilla east.png|Decaying
== Version history ==
* 0.12.906 - Added
* Beta 19/ 1.0 - nuzzle interval 72 -> 48 hours
Category:Animals
Category:Wild animal