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  • noun Plural form of agouti.

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Examples

  • There is a bunch of wildlife, very large marmot-like rodents called agoutis that you don't get to see anywhere else.

    NYT > Home Page By RACHEL LEE HARRIS 2011

  • Dr. Kays is applying the tracking system to explore the dynamic ménage à trois among the island ` s population of ocelots; the ruddy, snouty rodents called agoutis; and the island ` s towering and thickly buttressed Dipteryx trees.

    Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed 2009

  • Many little animals, such as agoutis, rats and insects spoil crops.

    Chapter 5 1976

  • The united force of these small creatures is vast, and there is no approach to the fabulous, when it is related that not only snakes, but also large mammalia, such as agoutis, armadillas, &c., on being surprised by them, are soon killed.

    Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

  • I saw tree-nesting sloth, four types of monkeys, parrots, macaws, toucan birds, coatis, agoutis and anteaters within the first day of my visit.

    Devin Galaudet: Waiting to Dance in Costa Rica Devin Galaudet 2010

  • I saw tree-nesting sloth, four types of monkeys, parrots, macaws, toucan birds, coatis, agoutis and anteaters within the first day of my visit.

    Devin Galaudet: Waiting to Dance in Costa Rica Devin Galaudet 2010

  • Emiliana Isasi-Catala wades through a creek and moves nimbly through the foliage, scanning the dark earth covered with fallen leaves for the distinctive round toes of jaguar tracks and the faint trails of smaller animals they prey on: agoutis, tapirs, peccaries and armadillos.

    Jaguars Studied With Motion-Sensing Cameras In Venezuela 2010

  • Why were they joined by the entire infraorder of caviomorph rodents, including guinea pigs, agoutis, pacas, maras, capybaras, chinchillas and lots of others, a large group of characteristically South American rodents, found nowhere else?

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Why were they joined by the entire infraorder of caviomorph rodents, including guinea pigs, agoutis, pacas, maras, capybaras, chinchillas and lots of others, a large group of characteristically South American rodents, found nowhere else?

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • The agoutis and squirrels eat some of the seeds and cache others for future consumption.

    Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) 2008

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