Chacoan mara (Dolichotis salinicola), pacarana (Dinomys branickii) 1. Zwerg-Mara, Dolichotis salinicola Burm.
2. Pacarana, Dinomys branickii Ptrs.
Image from page 202 of "Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine kunde des Tierreichs" (1911)
Title: Brehms Tierleben. Allgemeine kunde des Tierreichs
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Alfred Edmund Brehm, 1829-1884; Otto L Zur Strassen, 1869-; Ludwig Heck, 1860-; Friedrich Hempelmann, 1878-; Richard Heymons, 1867-; Franz Werner, b. 1867; William Marshall, 1845-; Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig
Subjects: Zoology; Animal behavior
Source: https://archive.org/stream/brehmstierlebena11breh/#page/n202/mode/1up
The Chacoan mara (Dolichotis salinicola) is a relatively large South American rodent of the cavy family Caviidae. The Chacoan mara lives in the South American Chaco, the dry thorny forests and grasslands of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Maras dig a burrow to sleep in at night.
The pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving hystricognath rodent indigenous to South America. Native peoples of the region call it the pacarana (false paca) because it is superficially similar to the paca.
