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The creep and recovery behaviors of lubrication oil based ferrofluids of different particle concentration were systematically investigated to understand the viscoelasticity of ferrofluids. The influence of stress level, magnetic field strength and temperature on creep and recovery behaviors of ferrofliuids was studied experimentally and the microscopic mechanisms behind the rheological phenomenon were discussed. Linear viscoelasticity theory and generalized Burgers models were employed to analyze the experimental results. The experimental results demonstrate that the ferrofluids exhibits unique creep and recovery properties significantly different from other stimuli responsive materials both in the linear and nonlinear viscoelastic region. Furthermore, structures larger than single chains are supposed to be responsible for many experimental results, including the extended relaxation process in recovery phase and the nonlinear increasing trend of creep strain with magnetic field strength and temperature. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the microscopic mechanism of magnetorheology of ferrofluids and also provide guidance for many practical applications.