the great extension that includes Latin America, is dominated by several factors
in common, from its history, to its language, where the most distributed is Spanish,
being the second most spoken language in the world, but other than its language another factor
that unites us all Latin Americans is its fauna, a vast and rich variety of specimens
of all kinds are widely distributed in this terrestrial extension, the best known
and maybe the most distributed is the jaguar, but another species that has passed unknown
for a large part of the Latin American population, it is the Central American agouti.
This vertebrate is widely distributed from Mexico to Argentina, to be more
precise to the south of Mexico reaching the north of Argentina, where it has also been introduced
to the Cayman Islands, found in forests, thickets, savannahs and growing areas,
while, for example, in Peru, it is limited to the Amazon jungle, but in general
find you close to the rocky areas of less than 2000 meters above the level of the
sea, found closely related to aquatic bodies, where it is very common
See them on the banks of streams, rivers and lakes. they are rodents of the dasyprocta family,
characterized by presenting at the extremities 5 front and 3 posterior fingers, with tails
very short, so they differ a lot from other rodents, there are 11 species of agouti.
its length ranges from 41 to 60 centimeters, with a tail of 1 to 3 centimeters and a weighing
that arrives from 2 to 4 kilograms. with a thin body, creating a very similar profile
to which they present / display the deer, with short ears and a fine head very similar to the one of a
chipmunk. its fur is bright reddish, orange or brownish brown in the
dorsal region, while the belly is more yellowish or whitish,
While the hair is in a more caudal position, it is larger. their
front legs tend to be shorter than the hind legs and like the other agoutis,
They have 3 fingers in the caudal limbs and 5 in the cranial limbs, where they have the capacity
to manipulate objects with the digits. males, unlike females, tend
to be of a larger size, while the females have 4 mammary glands that
they can be seen with the naked eye. they are diurnal animals and they live together in pairs
in a territory of 1 to 2 hectares that contain a great variety of fruit trees and a
source of water and when another agouti enters its territory is usually expelled
by the male, indistinctly if it is male or female. these conflicts can trigger
serious injuries, due to their aggressive behavior, where they ruffle their rump hairs,
they hit the ground with their feet or perform vocalizations as a warning. tend
to be nocturnal if the predators are close, but if not, they will remain in
their dens that they construct in hollow trunks, ridges surrounded by limestones or under
the exposed roots of a tree. in the day you can see them walking, jogging or
galloping on his fingers, reaching vertical jumps up to 2 meters high,
you can often see them sitting in a semi-erect position, in a place that
Allow to run agilely towards the vegetation if the situation warrants it,
running quickly to it, but if the danger persists they will tend to stay motionless
with one leg raised in case they have to flee again. while they are in a moment
relaxed, they will tend to clean their fur of the parasites, where they rake their fur
with your front fingers and bring it to your incisors to use as combs and remove
Any arthropod, occasionally resort with your partner.
They eat mainly fruits, where in their daily forays they look for trees
fruit trees, in fact it has been stipulated that they can listen when a fruit falls to the ground to
Go look for it to be attracted with the shock of ripe fruit and soil. as well
tend to follow groups of monkeys that go in search of food and wait for
the primates throw waste or fruits to eat them. for lunch they sit on
their back legs and hold their food with the front, to rotate it several times
while they remove their skin with their teeth and then eat them. in this case I know
that there is a part left over or when there is an excess of fruit, they are buried so that
when they need it, they look for it and eat it, especially when fruits are scarce or not
it's season being closely together with your partner
they are monogamous animals that can be reproduced at any time of the year, but normally
they do it in a specific season by region, where the one with the highest peak is
May to June, coinciding with the highest fruit production in the year. present a pregnancy
3 to 4 months, where they usually give birth to 2 to 3 offspring per birth, where the mother
I dig a burrow and I will give birth in that place or I will do it in an old lair,
newborns are born with hair, their eyes are open and can run after a few hours,
while the young are growing, the mother is responsible for moving them to a burrow more
large, often match the size of their offspring and helps predators
they do not identify adequately where they are with certainty, while the mother has her
own den separate from theirs. In general they take care of their care for 20 weeks,
where they separate completely from that group when their parent is waiting for a
new litter, where they go in search of their partner and a territory. your average life
It is not clear, but it is stipulated in 10 years, where they are the prey of a great variety of
Predators depending on the area and the country where they live, from eagles to jaguars,
but this average life is more related to the specimens in captivity,
all of the zoos, so it could be minor because of the lifestyle they lead,
where a lot of the time they are alert of some danger.
it is a species that is in minor concern, with a constant population, but
in some countries its population has declined due to hunting for its meat and destruction
of their habitat because they depend on their territory to a great extent for their reproduction
and when limited, there are cases that do not reproduce because they do not have some conditions
to go changing burrows. so one way to keep them is to maintain your
habitat and if necessary that urban areas or crops are adapted to the habitat for
not affect the ecosystem. their role in nature is fundamental, as they are a broad source
of dispersion of seeds when burying the fruits and in occisiones forgetting where
they left them, because they help to increase the extensions of forests in their zones. people
they could be used as tree identifiers where the fruits are ripe
and harvest them for sale, they also tend to get used to captivity as animals
domesticated and tend to be affectionate with the owners, so it would be ideal
that in countries where their population has declined they are raised in captivity, for
people acquire these specimens and not those of natural life, thus obtaining
an income, people will begin to take care of their ecosystem and prevent illegal traffic
of this species. a fundamental species for latin america,
which is responsible for increasing the forests of their regions, unknown by many and
that do not give much importance, a very important rodent also for the world to increase
extensions of biospheres that allow an adequate amount of oxygen, that is the agouti
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