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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

Mother cavy also licks the babies’ fur to keep them clean.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014

At night, Mother cavy tucks her babies in to bed in a small cave.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014

The three classes of cavies are Peruvians or Angoras, with long silky hair; Abyssinians, with coarse hair in tufts or rosettes, and the common guinea pig or smooth, cavy.

From Outdoor Sports and Games by Miller, Claude H.

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

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

From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 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

Furthermore, both the wild and captive-raised cavies showed a markedly higher stress response to an unfamiliar environment than the 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 Harvey, William