Hey, Capybara! You've got some tough new competition for cutest rodent in all the land! Enter the red-rumped agouti, a total ...

For my final dinner in Dominica, I dove into two exotic local delicacies: manicou (opossum) and agouti (a guinea pig-like rodent)! At Bell Hall Beach Spot, I enjoyed a Dominican feast featuring conch ...

You're trying too hard, Rabbit. Anyway, this is the Agouti. And while I hate to endanger its charm, I have to let you know, it's a rodent. And a big one at that. Growing up to two pounds and two ...

Macadamia’s escape from his National Zoo enclosure in July Macadamia was an agouti — a South American rodent about the size of a large house cat. He was relatively new at the National Zoo when ...

The determined agouti who briefly escaped his cage at the Smithsonian National Zoo last month has died. Zoo officials say Macadamia, a South American rodent about the size of a large house cat ...

It’s a big brown rodent but you’ll find it pleasant to look at. The Central American Agouti is one of the approximately 50 members of the order rodentia (rodents) to call this small country its home.

They started with pairs of fat yellow mice known to scientists as agouti mice, so called because they carry a particular gene—the agouti gene—that in addition to making the rodents ravenous and yellow ...

good for the tree and good for the rodent population as a whole. He's seen chipmunks steal pine seeds from one another in the Sierra, though not as impressively as the agouti. STEPHEN VANDER WALL ...

For instance, in normal, healthy mice, the agouti genes are kept in the "off" position by the epigenome, which attaches methyl groups to the corresponding regions of DNA, resulting in the DNA's ...