On this episode of Animal Fact Files discover a south american rodent who looks like a cross between a capybara and a guinea pig!

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Image and Video Credits:
Thore Noernberg    • Central American Agouti eating  Barr...  
thecrazycuban    • Video  
Threatened Taxa    • Spotted Paca & Redrumped Agouti in t...  
musicworld555    • Agouti doré ブラジリアン アグーチ  
Xavier Gamboa    • Deportes del Manatí:  Agouti paca, he...  
Jens Rentmeister    • [Animal] Acouchi (genus Myoprocta)  ...  
Leo Jimenez    • Cherenga (Guatuza) en Golfito, Costa ...  


Katja Schulz https://www.flickr.com/photos/treegro...
ryanacandee https://www.flickr.com/photos/3126735...
Brian Gratwicke https://www.flickr.com/photos/1973148...


Mistvan https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Haplochromis https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Postdlf https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Iveraldo Luiz Athanazio https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...


Brian Gratwicke https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/27...
Don Loarie https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/32...
Leonel Roget https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/33...
Jonathan Eisan https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/38...
floodmix https://freesound.org/people/floodmi...


Research Credits:
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/h...
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/...
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/anima...
https://www.britannica.com/animal/agouti
https://books.google.com/books?id=kMx...
https://books.google.com/books?id=aBE...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acouchi
http://www.doggenetics.co.uk/tan.html...