#black rumped agouti

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My favourite Dasyproctids

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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972. Illustrated by Peter Barrett.

1.) Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum)

2.) Chacoan mara (Dolichotis salinicola)

3.) Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)

4.) Pacarana (Dinomys branickii)

5.) Mountain paca (Cuniculus taczanowskii)

6.) Lowland paca (Cuniculus paca)

7.) Red acouchi (Myoprocta acouchy)

8.) Black agouti (Dasyprocta fuliginosa)

9.) Red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina)

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Zookeeping Nonsense

So I was at the zoo with my gf the other day and we were joking about all the birds/beasts we eventually want to keep, and she made a passing comment about us needing our own zoo. Completely joking of course, but me being the incorrigible nerd that I am I started to wonder if my selection of favorites might actually be viable in a smaller zoo setting. So for those zookeepers or any other keepers of animals on my list, your opinions on it would be most appreciated. Keep in mind, this list isn’t all of my favorite animals or even all the animals I want to keep, but those I would feel relatively confident in providing adequate care for (with help) and that would do well in captivity. I do not actually intend on having a zoo, I just want to see your thoughts.

Mammals -Red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) -Eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus) -Red necked wallaby(Macropus rufogriseus)

-Giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) -Tamandua (Tamandua spp.)

-Grey fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) -Bat eared fox (Otocyon megalotis) -Coatimundi (Nasua spp.)

-Greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) -Giant eland (Taurotragus derbianus) -Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) -Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) -Reeve’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) -Blue duiker (Philantomba monticola)

-African crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) -Lowland paca (Cuniculus paca) -Red rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina)

-Llama -Alpaca -Barbados blackbelly sheep -Spanish and nubian goat -Kunekune pig

Birds -Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) -Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) -Pygmy Goose (Nettapus auritus) -Black Necked Swan (Cygnus melancoryphus) -Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)

-Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria) -Pheasant Pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis) -Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica) -Crested pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) -Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) -Luzon Bleeding Heart (Gallicolumba luzonica)

-Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) -Silver Pheasant (Lophura nycthemera) -Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) -Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris) -Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) -Peacock (Pavo cristatus) -Brush turkey (Alectura lathami)

-Rosses Turaco (Musophaga rossae) -White cheeked turaco (Tauraco leucotis) -Livingstone's turaco (Tauraco livingstonii) -Red billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus)

-Laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

-Superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus) -Violet Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster) -Purple glossy starling (Lamprotornis purpureus) -White crested laughing thrush (Garrulax leucolophus) -Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) -Bearded Barbet (Lybius dubius) -Red-crested Cardinal (Paroaria coronata) -Pekin Robin (Leiothrix lutea)

-Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) -Ostrich (Struthio camelus) -Greater Rhea (Rhea americana)

Reptiles -Blue tongue skink (Tiliqua scincoides) -Shingleback Skink (Tiliqua rugosa) -Monkey tailed skink (Corucia zebrata) -Fire skink (Lepidothyris fernandi)

-Crested gecko (Correlophus ciliatus) -Mossy prehensile tailed gecko -Leachie Gecko (Rhacodactylus leachianus) -Mourning gecko (Rhacodactylus chahoua) -Fat tailed gecko (Hemitheconyx caudicinctus) -Knob tailed gecko (Nephrurus spp.) -Giant day gecko (Phelsuma grandis)

-Black and white tegu (Salvator merianae) -Caiman lizard (Dracaena guianensis) -Black spiny tailed iguana (Ctenosaura similis) -Rhinoceros iguana (Cyclura cornuta) -Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum) -Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum)

-Long tailed boa constrictor (Boa constrictor longicauda) -Rubber boa (Charina bottae) -Carpet python (Morelia spilota) -Boelen's python (Morelia boeleni) -Black headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus)

-Cuviers Dwarf caiman (Paleosuchus palpebrosus)

-African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata) -Matamata (Chelus fimbriata)

Amphibians -Solomon island leaf frog (Ceratobatrachus guentheri) -African bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus) -Horned frogs (Ceratophrys spp.) -Budgett's frog (Lepidobatrachus laevis) -Bumblebee dart frog (Dendrobates leucomelas) -Dyeing dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius) -Green and black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) -Mimic Poison dart Frog (Dendrobates imitator) -Vietnamese mossy frog (Theloderma corticale) -Amazon milk frog (Trachycephalus resinifictrix) -Waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa sauvagii)

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This part of my @aucklandzoo visit on March 1st takes place at the South American exhibition. Animals are: 1. Andean striped-knee tarantula (Lasiodorides striatus) 2. Bolivian blueleg tarantula (Pamphobeteus antinous) 3. Black-handed spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) 4. Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) 5. Blue and gold macaw (Ara ararauna) 6. Green iguana (Iguana iguana) 7. Emperor tamarin (Saguinus imperator) 8. Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) 9. Cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) 10. Red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) #animal #animals #arachnid #arachnids #reptile #reptiles #mammal #mammals #bird #birds #tarantula #tarantulas #monkey #monkeys #rodent #rodents #iguana #cavy #peruvianorangestripetarantula #steelybluelegtarantula #blackhandedspidermonkey #galapagostortoise #blueandgoldmacaw #greeniguana #emperortamarin #capybara #cottontoptamarin #redrumpedagouti #rainforest #endangeredspecies (at Auckland Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvv9YpgAtaE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ehd82sgt1hhh

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Cat Pee High Staggering Tricks

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‘We want to keep our forest’: why Guyana’s wilderness needs visitors | Travel

I’m sitting atop a pink granite boulder with Rovin, my information. Beneath us is a billowing inexperienced expanse of jungle damaged solely by the sinuous line of a river and a low vary of hills, one in every of which we’re seated on. There isn’t a signal of humanity: no smoke pillars, no clearings, no masts or buildings, not even a jet path throughout the sky. As an alternative, there’s a formation of six red-and-green macaws, cackling as they go, and within the close by fig tree the flitterings of tiny, jewel-like birds in splendid emerald and sapphire livery.

“This space,” says Rovin, pointing forward at an enormous jungle contained in a pure bowl a number of miles throughout, “is unexplored. It belongs to our group, however nobody has been there.” He pauses whereas a pair of black lizards skitter previous. “We’ve had oil firms, loggers and gold miners come right here, however we’ve mentioned no to all of them.”

Once I first thought-about visiting central Guyana, I discovered myself doing a cost-benefit evaluation. On one aspect was the sobering quantity of carbon dioxide produced by the return long-haul flight and three brief inside flights – about 2.eight tonnes in line with myclimate.org (see Carbon Calculation under). Alternatively – with a really massive query mark subsequent to it – have been the potential benefits to communities visited in one of many least explored elements of South America, a rustic that noticed fewer than 300,00Zero travellers final yr.

I had thought this is able to be a troublesome equation to steadiness. With the planet within the grip of a local weather disaster, can there be any justification for such a journey?

Rovin (rear, proper) scanning for wildlife at sundown.

Rovin begins doing the maths for me. “We have now about 350 sq. kilometres of jungle and have utilized to take over one other 350 of what’s now state land. We get about 200 guests a yr and we wish 400, no extra. We don’t need to be wealthy, however we need to hold our forest. We do want cash for medicines, schooling and provides.”

Take away the vacationers and the necessity for an revenue would quickly drive these communities into the arms of loggers, ranchers, goldminers and oilmen.

Rovin is head wildlife information at Rewa Ecolodge, run by members of the Makushi tribe, one in every of 9 Amerindian teams in Guyana. The nation is concerning the dimension of Nice Britain however with solely a tiny fraction of the inhabitants; some 780,00Zero individuals, most residing on the coast. The huge inside is essentially rainforest the place tiny communities are sometimes linked solely by river. Such is the excessive rainfall, the mouth of the Essequibo, the nation’s largest river, is as broad because the Channel at Dover.

After admiring the view, and birds, Rovin and I head down the slim, rocky path. At one level I cease in disbelief: some fool has dropped a big triangle of iridescent blue plastic. I despair of people. The primary piece of litter in days. I bend down. It’s a morpho butterfly.

Rewa Ecolodge. {Photograph}: PR

“You realize what,” I say to Rovin, “your jungle is filled with treasures which can be higher than gold or oil.”

He grins and factors out a green-tailed jacamar, a bee-eater-like fowl, perched in a complicated dapple of leaf and shade. The Guyanan jungle bristles and prickles round us: I discover tiny actions within the leaf litter and see ticks scuttling in direction of my boots, drawn by physique warmth. Later I take away one from my abdomen. Search for and every tree is festooned with ferns, creepers and orchids. Look down inside a fern and there, within the captured rainwater, swim tadpoles and frogs alongside all of the insect larvae and eggs. No surprise this place gobbles up CO2. Calculations by a global staff together with Professor Oliver Phillips of Leeds College put the determine at round 200 tonnes per sq km per yr (see rainfor.org).

Absorption of CO2 by Rewa rainforest estimated at 200 tonnes per sq. kilometres per yr (see the rainfor.org). 350 sq km x 200 = 70,00Zero tonnes

CO2 emissions on return London flight, (utilizing myclimate carbon calculator): return from London Gatwick to Georgetown through Barbados (financial system seat in a big jet) is 2.5 tonnes; Georgetown to Kaieteur (small turboprop plane) is 0.108 tonnes; Kaieteur to Apoteri (estimate) = is 0.05 tonnes; Lethem to Georgetown = is 0.132 tonnes. Whole: 2.79 tonnes per passenger

200 annual guests to Rewa x 2.79 (primarily based on a London flight) = 558 tonnes of CO2

Rovin brings me to the riverbank, the place we board his motorised canoe. I inform him about solar-powered outboards. He had not heard of them. Cease the calculation! What if a vacationer brings a helpful thought? How does that match into any equation? And don’t think about the lodge wouldn’t take up new concepts: it’s already ditched diesel mills and gone completely photo voltaic.

Kevin Rushby takes within the unbelievable view from Kaieteur Falls.

We transfer out into the river and spot one thing swimming. At first I feel it have to be a jaguar within the water, such is the ability and agility, however it’s an enormous river otter, nearly two metres lengthy.

“After we opened the lodge in 2005,” Rovin says, “we stopped the hunters coming in. Now we see an increasing number of of every little thing: otters, macaws, jaguars.” There have been different advantages: males engaged on Brazilian ranches and in Guyanan gold mines have come house. The group is happier and more healthy, usually happy with what had been a troublesome choice.

The Guyanan jungles are a part of the Guiana Defend, an enormous area of north-east South America, a biodiversity hotspot that’s separate from the Amazon and accommodates greater than 1,00Zero fowl species and 269 identified amphibians (extra are always being discovered). Examine that with round 700 birds and 85 amphibians in all of Europe, which is nearly 4 occasions bigger. Many of those Guiana Defend species are endemic. A couple of days earlier I’d trekked by way of jungle close to Kaieteur Falls (the largest single-drop falls on this planet) to see the spectacular Guianan cock-of-the-rock, a fowl extra orange than Donald Trump but tweeting with extra knowledge.

Crimson-and-green macaws flying over Rewa.

Again on the river, we take a aspect channel then switch to a close-by oxbow lake and a paddled boat. The solar is dropping low over the bushes as Rovin offers a deep stomach growl that instantly will get a vigorous response with wild splashing noises from the reedbeds. “Black caimans,” he grins, then factors one out. Subsequent to it, one thing large rolls and I glimpse an extended, scaly again. “Arapaima,” Rovin whispers, the biggest scaled freshwater fish, reaching as much as three metres in size. Rovin is a part of a staff from Rewa group lodge who’ve pioneered the artwork of catch-and-release for these giants. In 2015 it resulted in a world document specimen of 189kg. One other arapaima rolls and an osprey flies over. There are harpy eagles right here too, however we’re not destined to be fortunate in that division.

After returning to the clear and easy riverside lodge, we eat hen and plantains for dinner. A pink-toe tarantula is faraway from one cabin. That evening I carry the lid on the skin bathroom and a frog bounces up, hitting me within the chest. A rustle within the bushes above alerts me to a kinkajou, one thing like a raccoon, however in a genus of its personal. Daybreak brings a symphony of birdsong: the liquid warblings of oropendolas underscored by the percussive rap of red-naped woodpecker and tuneless toucan screeches. A red-rumped agouti, trying like a guinea pig on steroids, scuttles away from the huts pursued by a crested caracara, a sort of forest falcon with a Peaky Blinders haircut.

A savannah hawk flies down a jungle glade within the Kanuki mountains.

Within the boat as soon as once more we transfer upstream, then stroll right into a forest of big mora bushes, a favorite hardwood for loggers who, little doubt, would like to get their fingers on them. As we stroll, my thoughts drifts again to my carbon calculations. If every customer generates 2.79 tonnes of CO2, I muse, and there are 200 of them, that makes 558 tonnes (assuming all of them got here from so far as London). However look how a lot CO2 the Rewa group forests may be absorbing yearly (350 sq km x 200): over 70,00Zero tonnes.

My ballpark mathematical reveries are disturbed by Rovin. Within the gloom of the forest flooring, he’s shining a torch right into a small gap massive sufficient to insert a tennis ball. He’s teasing one thing, twitching the tip of a stick on the entrance. There’s sudden motion and a creature pounces, an enormous spider, bristling with annoyance. “Not a giant one,” says Rovin. “Don’t go too shut; they will fireplace poisoned hairs at you.” This nine-inch monster is the Goliath bird-eater spider, the biggest tarantula on the planet (they will attain 12 inches throughout). Whether or not it does genuinely eat birds is the topic of debate, however Rovin has little doubt. “They ambush forest flooring birds just like the antpitta.” Pity the antpitta. A pint-sized squirt that meets its finish below the arachnid equal of Mako Vunipola. If loggers got here right here, nonetheless, it might be these spectacular spiders who have been crushed.

A black caiman snoozing in an ox bow lake beside the Rewa River.

My time in Rewa is over and I take the boat 55 miles upriver earlier than transferring to a different group lodge: Surama. Right here they’ve the Iwokrama forest and the same inhabitants dimension to Rewa, round 300 sq km. They, too, want comparatively small numbers of tourists to make sure their jungle stays untouched. 4 different Amerindian communities have launched into this kind of tourism, however whereas the scope for extra is large, subsequent yr ExxonMobil will begin pumping oil from offshore rigs, doubtlessly remodeling the Guyanan financial system.

I stroll alone to the sting of the jungle and watch a hummingbird work over the bushes. I’m wishing my journey was longer, as long-haul journeys must be. Guyana has a repute for being costly, however there’s scope to journey cheaply for those who can sleep in a hammock. Buses and boats will take you all the way in which throughout nation to the Brazil border – I like to recommend Waikin ranch for those who’d wish to see big anteaters and nice horned owls.

I drift up a path into the forest and watch a pair of macaws squabble on a excessive department till a feather drifts down. I chase after it and locate a scarlet tail feather so long as my forearm. The jungle, it appears, is casting its treasures at my toes.

• The journey was supplied by Wilderness Explorers, which is providing a 10-day Guyana package deal solely for Guardian readers for £2,000pp (a reduction of 15%); the journey consists of Georgetown, Rewa, Surama and Kaieteur Falls however excludes worldwide flights (have to be booked by 31 December, quote reserving code GuardianGuyana). Flights from Gatwick to Georgetown through Barbados with Virgin/LIATfrom £650. Additional data at guyanatourism.com

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Black-rumped agouti - high resolution image from old book.