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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

Mother cavy and her babies like to spend the afternoon sunbathing.

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

Then the mother cavy feeds her baby cavies.

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

“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

They are easily tamed; and when crossed with other breeds, a variety is produced which is esteemed by the natives as the very best kind for the hunting of the agoutis, cavies, and capibaras.

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