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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

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

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

From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014

Mother cavy thinks as she eats her breakfast.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014

In like manner, in the Pampas of South America the skeletons of Megatherium, Megalonyx, Glyptodon, Mylodon, Toxodon, Macrauchenia, and other extinct forms, are analogous to the living sloth, armadillo, cavy, capybara, and llama.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

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

Then the mother cavy feeds her baby cavies.

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 cavies and ermines were running a race, Armadillo was off to a grasshopper chace.

From The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic by Anonymous