{"id":1045,"date":"2014-07-28T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T04:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2014-07-28T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T04:22:10","slug":"brazilian-agouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/07\/28\/brazilian-agouti\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Agouti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though agouti is mostly known as a color variation for various animals there is an actual group of rodents known as agouti.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn fact the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agouti_gene\" title=\"Agouti gene\" target=\"_blank\">agouti gene<\/a> responsible for this color was named after the rodent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1044\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Brazilian-Agouti.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1044\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Brazilian-Agouti.jpg\" alt=\"Brazilian Agouti\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1044\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Brazilian-Agouti.jpg 600w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Brazilian-Agouti-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazilian Agouti (<em>Dasyprocta leporina<\/em>), <a href=\"\/places\/hungary\/szeged\/szeged-zoo\/\" title=\"Szeged Zoo\">Szeged Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Agoutis are rodents that live in South America. There are many species of agouti, the ones in the picture are Brazilian agoutis also known as Red-rumped agoutis. They sort of look like a cross between a rabbit and a guinea pig.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian agoutis are vegetarian. Apparently some people do keep a Brazilian agouti as a pet.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/danielsanimals.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/30\/this-is-my-brazilian-agouti-fact-sheet\/\" title=\"Brazilian Agouti fact sheet\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilian Agouti<\/a> fact sheet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red-rumped_agouti\" title=\"Red-rumped agouti\" target=\"_blank\">Red-rumped agouti<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though agouti is mostly known as a color variation for various animals there is an actual group of rodents known as agouti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,40,62,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}