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More About Agoutis ...
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"The popular term (common) agouti designates several rodent species of the genus Dasyprocta. They are related to guinea pigs and look quite similar, but their legs are elongated".
Their habitat includes rainforests, savannas and, nowadays, cultivated fields, depending on the species. They conceal themselves at night in hollow tree-trunks, or in burrows among roots. Active and graceful in their movements, their pace is either a kind of trot or a series of springs following one another so rapidly as to look like a gallop.
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Taxonmony
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Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dasyproctidae
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Source: Wikipedia Read more about Agoutis
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VIDEO CLIPS
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Agouti
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Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica and Panama (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
At Sirena in the heart of Corcovado, an agouti (Agouti paca) gnaws on nuts near the Sirena river.
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Agouti
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The Belize Zoo
Clip of Agouti
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