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The zoo also has three of the world’s four largest rodents, including the Patagonian cavy, a sweet-tempered mammal that looks like a cross between a jack rabbit and a dog.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2014

Researchers had children aged 1 through 5 look at picture books of a large rodent called a cavy engaged in various activities.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2014

While looking at the pictures half the children heard factual narrative, like, “Mother cavy licks the babies’ fur to keep them clean.”

From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2014

Mother cavy and her babies spend the rest of the day lying in the sun.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014

Instead of being a harmless tapin, or cavy, as we had been guessing, it was no other than the dreaded janarit pixuna—the black jaguar of the Amazon.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

Since taking over as zoo curator two years ago, Dr. Valitutto has brought in such animals as Patagonian cavies, a cassowary and a capybara, more than doubling the collection of animals, to 1,500.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2014

In one experiment, the kids were shown books that had realistic images of animals they weren’t familiar with – cavies, oxpeckers, and handfish – but the text that accompanied the drawings were very different.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014

“I will feed some to my baby cavies too!” she says.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014

A similar study raised cavies in captivity for 30 generations and compared their behavior and hormone levels to wild-raised cavies and domesticated guinea pigs.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 12, 2011

The Guinea Pig is one of the family of cavies.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey