Here are some chinchilla facts 1  : The chinchillas are mammals, representing the Rodents group. 2  Their natural habitat is the South part of Latin America. 3  Chinchillas live in colonies of 100 and prefer mountains where they can easily find places to hide.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph.
A cadaver tomb or transi (or memento mori tomb, Latin for reminder of death) is a church monument or tomb featuring an effigy in the macabre form of a decomposing corpse. The topos was particularly characteristic of the later Middle Ages. A depiction of a rotting cadaver in art (as opposed to a skeleton) is called a transi.