During such a family feud, the chinmom may turn very sour. Then she answers through a loudly rasping noise, that sounds like an angry grumble. Mostly she also gets up on her hind legs and spatters urine towards her babies for separating them.

A shy and nervous chinchilla also makes use of such urine spattering, if a human hand comes too close to it.

A "Marriage Dispute"
Chins are very spirited animals. They love jumping and chewing very much. Thus, keeping them in more or less spacious cages will cause sometimes a quarrel among them. Especially if they don't have enough exercises in the evening, chins sometimes get on their nerves. But generally chins are very peace-loving animals. Hence, such squabblings are rather rare.

The following example shows a situation where the female is molested by the male. While they are facing each other, the male provokes her by chattering his teeth and she answers with a loud and angry grumble. ((knurren.wav). You can hear the silent chatter in the background, especially in the second half of the sound sample.) The female suddenly screams up and spatters urine towards his face.

Then the male leaps up and as a result, a turbulent chase begins. (Käfigjagd.wav)