Cuniculus paca

Related to Cuniculus paca: Eira barbara, Gibnut

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Cuniculus paca - large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food

gnawer, rodent - relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

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Cuniculus paca is one of the World's largest rodents, measuring about 70 cm long and weighting up to 10 kg (Silva, 2014).

Activity pattern of medium and large sized mammals and density estimates of Cuniculus paca (Rodentia: Cuniculidae) in the Brazilian Pampa/Padrao de atividade de mamiferos de medio e grande porte e estimativa da densidade de Cuniculus paca (Rodentia: Cuniculidae) no Pampa brasileiro

Abundancia relativa: Las especies con mayor abundancia relativa en ambas temporadas fueron el mapache Procyon lotor (IAR = 4.35, N = 493) y el coati Nasua narica (IAR = 3.91, N = 444), seguidas del tlacuache cuatro ojos Philander opossum (IAR = 2.04, N = 232), el tepezcuintle Cuniculus paca (IAR = 1.89, N = 215), el tlacuache Didelphis marsupialis (IAR = 1.67, N = 190) y el armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus (IAR = 1.02, N = 116) (Cuadro 1).

Diversidad y patrones de actividad de mamiferos medianos y grandes en la Reserva de la Biosfera La Encrucijada, Chiapas, Mexico

Lapa (Cuniculus paca) 3 1+ 1+ Curi (Cavia aperea) 4 2+ 2+ 2+ Mamiferos cinegeticos Hemoc.

MAMIFEROS CINEGETICOS DE VENEZUELA: RIESGOS EPIDEMIOLOGICOS EN LA INFECCION CON Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) cruzi

Tapirus terrestris, Tayassu pecari and Cuniculus paca were the species more associated with proximity to a water resource.

DIFFERENCES IN THE MAMMALIAN HABITAT USE IN A MOSAIC OF VEGETATION TYPES OF AN ATLANTIC RAIN-FOREST RESERVE, BRAZIL

pardalis, prey species were Cuniculus paca, Dasyprocta mexicana, and Dasypus novemcinctus; for L.

ABUNDANCE OF MESOCARNIVORES IN TWO VEGETATION TYPES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN REGION OF MEXICO

They present a single cervix that opens into a single vagina as that found in the capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) (Costa et al., 2002), paca (Cuniculus paca) (Reis et al., 2011) and Galea spixii (Santos et al., 2014b).

Intrauterine Development of Female Genital Organs in Cavia porcellus (Rodentia: Caviidae)

The lowland paca Cuniculus paca is an example of a large Neotropical game mammal that is hard to capture, mainly because of its nocturnal and cryptic habits, remaining in burrows underground during the day.

Turning the game around for conservation: using traditional hunting knowledge to improve the capture efficiency of Amazon lowland pacas

Cuniculus paca was only registered by camera trapping in the transitional forest and Pacific Tropical Rainforest (3[grados]51'13"S, 80[grados]16'3.20"W).

New mammalian records in the Parque Nacional Cerros de Amotape, northwestern Peru

vogeli cestodes (adult cestode carriers; wild rodents, especially pacas (Cuniculus paca), may be the most common intermediate hosts (larvae or metacestode carriers) (2).