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  • The Agouti is a true friend of the desert; it is a common feature of the landscape to see two or three hopping quickly one after the other in a straight line across these wild plains.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The Agouti is a true friend of the desert; it is a common feature of the landscape to see two or three hopping quickly one after the other in a straight line across these wild plains.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The Agouti is a true friend of the desert; it is a common feature of the landscape to see two or three hopping quickly one after the other in a straight line across these wild plains.

    Chapter IV 1909

  • The Agouti is a true friend of the desert; it is a common feature of the landscape to see two or three hopping quickly one after the other in a straight line across these wild plains.

    The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

  • Other rare mammals include the Guianan squirrel (Sciurus aestuans), and Paca (Agouti paca).

    Araucaria moist forests 2008

  • Incidentally, the genus Cuniculus Brisson 1762 is the same animal as that more often called Agouti Lacépède 1799.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Other mammals include Central American tapir Tapirus bardii (V), Caribbean manatee Trichechus manatus (V), spider monkey Ateles geoffroyi (V), howler monkey Alouatta villosa, kinkajou Potos flavus, white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus, red brocket Mazama americana, peccaries Tayassu pecari and T. tajacu, paca Agouti paca, tayra Eira barbara and collared anteater Tamandua tetradactyla.

    Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, Mexico 2008

  • * Eaton (1916) misidentified the Mountain pacas and thought that the Machu Picchu remains represented a new species that he called Agouti thomasi.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • There are also capybara Hydrochoeris hydrochaeris, agouti Dasyprocta fuliginosa and paca Agouti paca, Felix spp., jaguar and tapir Tapirus terrestris.

    Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

  • The spotted paca (Agouti paca), the kinkajou (Potos flavus), and the Orinoco agouti (Dasyprocta guamara) are also common.

    Coastal Venezuelan mangroves 2008

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