Stock Photo - 1968 - Chinchilla farm in Munich. About two weeks ago breeder Josef Zettl opened the first chinchilla-farm in Europe. 20 animals came per plane to Munich in order to bring foreign currency for Germany under the expert care of the breeder of fur-bearing animals. According to their origin the chinchillas are rodents. They have the most expensive fur of the world. the value of the animals kept for breeding is 3.000.-- DM per couple. If they don't bring forth young within one year then they may be exchanged. the fur is sold for 300.-- DM. they need 200 to 250 furse for one fur-coat. As Josef Zettl told there are now only nine of these expensive fur-coats. One has Josef Stalin's widow, one of the wife of Aga Khan and another the late Queen-mother Mary of England. Josef Zettl's animals have numbers. the couple AH L 4 and AH K 11 had their first young in Munich. It is just three hours old. Chinchillas are very cheap in feeding. One animal costs about 10.-- DMarks per year. They have a daily bath in sand. They have young every 111 days. The home of the chinchillas are the Andes. the Inka-princes already decorated themselves with their furs. In early centuries chinchilla was the fur of kings and it was strictly prohibited to the common people to have the furs manufactured. Keystone Munich Exclusive Picture. (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)