A baboon family
These large rodents roam the public areas of the zoo. This bottom one looks like a capybara but is a little small. If you know their names, please leave a comment!
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A baboon family
These large rodents roam the public areas of the zoo. This bottom one looks like a capybara but is a little small. If you know their names, please leave a comment!
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7 comments:
Dumbo? :p
david
The aquatic rodent is a "coipo" (Myocastor coipus). You can see some of them swimming free in Reserva Natural Costanera Sur. In France they were introduced and became into a pest species. In French they are called "ragondin"... except by some cooks, who serve them as "lièvre des marées".
The hare-like rodent is a "mara" or Patagonian hare (liebre patagónica).
They are also an autoctonous species in Argentina and Chile. In the pampas they may be more difficult to find, because the European hares has been introduced and the maras are outcompeted by the exotic hares.
Thomas, the first animal is a "carpincho" and the second y a "mara" (female, "una mara"). the "esteros del ibera" is the carpincho`s habitat.
Lic. Ariel Ungaro arielungaro@hotmail.com
Mordi is right- the small, beaver like animals that run free at the zoo are coipo or coypu- in english we call them Nutria. They are spreading all thruout europe and north america these days- in fact, they are a big nuisance in Florence, Italy. But they are native to south america.
A Carpincho, or Capybara, is bigger, and, at the zoo, they dont let the Carpincho run free. A Carpincho is the worlds largest rodent, kind of like a guinea pig the size of a St. Bernard. There is a group of them at the zoo, but they are in a fenced in enclosure. They swim, and climb trees.
My kids and I call the Maras "bunnydogs" because they look like a cross between the two.
Ries, Nutria and Coipo are not the same. In Argentina we have both.
The funny thing is that the fur tanners usually sell coipo fur and call it "nutria". A coipo is a rodent and a nutria (Lutra provocax) is a carnivore (and quite bigger). Nutrias are usually in southern Argentina and coipos can be found (not exclusively) around the Plata basin.
That`s a Mara or Patagonic hare.
The first is what we call a nutria in English, but "nutria" is also the Spanish word for otter, thus the ambiguity in tanning and leather preparation. And the second one is definitely a mara.
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