Anyone know what animal this is?

[Cian McLiam]

Anyone know? It looks like a cross between a dog (they walk on all fours and older ones have dog like faces) and a rabbit. They were all over the place in the wildlife park:

 

[White Whale]

A Pit Bunny?

 

[wuvmybetta]

lol itty

I have no clue but it's amazing I wonder if it would use a litterbox like a bunny...or go outside like a dog

 

[Link]

Looks to me like a Capybara

The adults should look like this if it is

 

[wuvmybetta]

The ears are totally different

 

[The-Wolf]

Oh its a Lagidium viscacia (Mountain viscacha ) too easy

 

[endparenthesis]

I think it's some kind of Mara.

 

[The-Wolf]

trust me its a
Kingdom Animalia -- Animal, animals, animaux
Phylum Chordata -- chordates, cordado, cordés
Subphylum Vertebrata -- vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés
Class Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758 -- mamífero, mammals, mammifères
Subclass Theria Parker and Haswell, 1897
Infraclass Eutheria Gill, 1872
Order Rodentia Bowdich, 1821 -- esquilo, preá, rato, rodents, roedor, rongeurs
Suborder Hystricognatha Woods, 1976
Infraorder Hystricognathi Tullberg, 1899 -- hystricognath rodents
Family Chinchillidae Bennett, 1833
Genus Lagidium Meyen, 1833
Species Lagidium viscacia (Molina, 1782)

 

[endparenthesis]

Found a pic:

http/www.garlynzoo.com/pages/Baby_Cavies.htm

A mara and a patagonian cavy are the same thing. But I don't know if that's the right kind of mara.

The mountain viscachas look like chinchillas... see:

http/www.stevemetzphotography.com/photo%...ls/Viscacha.htm

 

[The-Wolf]

look at the muzzle of the mara it is way way longer than the viscacha
trust me on this.
EDIT;
The photograpgh you have linked to shows the viscacha in it's long winter coat.

 

[Cian McLiam]

Hmmmm heres another photo of two older ones:

 

[endparenthesis]

Ok that is so a mara.

 

[Sasha]

Um . . . I saw a picture of those once in a book but I forgot the name.

 

[GP]

Mara Smara. A dog got a little too desperate, found a bunny, and there you have it.




Dunny.

 

[-cAtFiSh-]

yeah i think it is a mara. i saw one of those when i went to a zoo in Ireland years and years ago. i think we have a photo of it