viscera

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Populating the ridge and surrounding slopes are herds of gazellelike creatures called guanacos; viscachas, marmotlike rodents with rabbity ears; burros; and hawks.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2023

Perfectly conical volcanoes loom over salt flats and desolate plains where guanacos, elegantly proportioned cousins of llamas, and viscachas, which resemble long-tailed rabbits, drift through prickly wisps of ground-hugging vegetation.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022

These quanacos are larger and more corpulent, and are also called viscachas.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Kerr, Robert

These villages being on the level prairie, the viscachas are careful to build them high enough so that floods will not reach them.

From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hawksworth, Hallam

They were chinchillas and viscachas, which he had taken out of his snares set overnight.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne