Cavia

There is a great variety of bats; rodents include the Venezuelan endemic Roraima rat Podoxymys roraimae, short-tailed cane mouse Zygodontes brevicauda, three climbing rats in the genus Rhipidomys, and two guinea pigs Cavia species.

Canaima National Park, Venezuela 2009

Other mammals in the area are the vizcachas (Lagostomus maximus), the cuis pampeano (Cavia aperea), the nutria (Myocastur coypus), and the opossum (Didelphis albiventris).

Semi-arid Pampas 2008

Other mammals in the area are the vizcachas (Lagostomus maximus), the cuis pampeano (Cavia aperea), the nutria (Myocastur coypus), and the opossum (Didelphis albiventris).

Humid Pampas 2007

Three species of wild cavies (Cavia aperea, C. fulgida, and C. tschudii), close relatives of the guinea pig, are native to South America and are declining drastically.

15 Agouti 1991

Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) are promising microlivestock because they require little capital or labor; provide an inexpensive, readily available, palatable meat; have no odor, and are suitable for keeping indoors.

15 Agouti 1991

Hitherto docile and kind, as is the nature of the _Cavia cobaya_, vulgarly called guinea pig, this evening Ribot became as you have seen him.

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903

A small pampa rodent worthy of notice is the Cavia australis, called

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

There were three mice and two young cavies (Cavia australis) lying untouched in the nest.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881

[* The thick-nosed tapir, or river cavy (Cavia capybara), called chiguire in those countries.]

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

I also found a most curious snail, and spiders, beetles, snakes, scorpions ad libitum, and to conclude shot a Cavia weighing a cwt.

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