The Agouti is a true friend of the desert; it is a common feature of the landscape to see two or three hopping quickly one after the other in a straight line across these wild plains.
Where the Bizcacha lives and makes its burrows, the Agouti uses them; but where, as at Bahia Blanca, the Bizcacha is not found, the Agouti burrows for itself.
It is a singular fact, that although the Agouti is not now found as far south as Port St. Julian, yet that Captain Wood, in his voyage in 1670, talks of them as being numerous there.
In the landscape of Patagonia the guanaco replaces the gazelle, and the agouti the hare.
The meat for our dinner consists of fish, and the flesh of the armadillo, the agouti and the iguana.
It differs from the agouti by having a tail, which the latter has not.
He is called by the name of agouti in the islands of Grenada and St. Lucia.
Besides our former remark that the akouchi was a different species from the agouti from having a tail, the difference in size may also be added, in support of this opinion, as the former does not exceed the size of a young rabbit.
The agouti setiforms are appearing also posteriorly from the mystacial region to the sides of the head and neck and, at the same time, on the frontal region.
By the time the third molars erupt, the aristiforms start showing among the setiforms which are now changing to agouti color in the same area on the back, while the thin aristiforms of the juvenal stage disappear.
In a later stage the area of agouti setiforms on the sides of the neck extends to the outer sides of the arms and finally reaches the area on the back where the agouti setiforms were already developed.
When the third molars become functional, the agouti setiforms are in place except for those on the upper sides of the neck.
When angry, the agouti stamps with the fore-feet, grunts like a young pig, and erects the bristly hair upon its crupper after the manner of porcupines.
There are many species of agouti throughout tropical America and the West India Islands, and the range of the genus extends as far south as the plains of Patagonia.
A frightened agouti scampered across her path and stopped, frozen with fear, and a green ribbon-like snake drooping in festoons from a low-growing branch hastily drew up its coils as the big cat passed below.
That very night, as he lay moaning in the grass, a foolish agouti hopped up to him inquisitively and paid with its life for the indiscretion.
In the landscape of Patagonia, the guanaco replaces the gazelle, and the agouti the hare.
Not to mention an agouti ham, a leg of mutton, a quarter of goat, some of the game on the prairie, without counting two or three freshwater fish and a sea fish or so.
But, Ernest, the agouti not only looks something like a pig, but most decidedly grunts like a porker.
I, too, know the agouti by descriptions and pictures, and there is little doubt that this is a specimen.
The first point that strikes one on looking at the agouti is the great length of its hind legs.
As the agouti comes out only by night it is a difficult animal to watch, and it is so wary that it cannot be approached without great caution.
When fully grown, the agouti is rather more than eighteen inches long, and in general color it is olive brown.
So sometimes it has been thought that an agoutiwould make a very nice pet.
D has been added are pure blacks in appearance, when only a single dose of D is added the animal shows some agouti markings and is an agouti-black.
Thus the agouti Himalayan has lighter points than the black Himalayan.
Such also is the case in the rat, where the black and albino varieties and the various pattern forms are also recessive to the wild agouti type.
Expressed in Mendelian terms, the production of the agouti was the necessary consequence of the meeting of the factors C and G in the same zygote.
So also from the cross between pure strains of black and albino rabbits we may obtain in the F2 generation animals of the wild agouticolour which breed as true to type as the pure wild rabbit of irreproachable pedigree.
Such animals must be coloured, but as they do not contain the modifying agouti factor their colour will be black.
Such, for example, is the case in the rabbit, where most of the colour varieties are recessive to the wild agouti form.
Each lacks two of the factors upon the full complement of which the agouticolour depends.
Agouti was previously known to be a simple dominant to black, i.
Marcgrave, and almost all naturalists after him, have said that theagouti has six toes on the hind-feet.
They scald the agouti and dress it like a sucking pig, and the flesh of such as are fat and well fed is tolerable food, though it has always a peculiar taste, and is rather tough.
The agouti appears to be a native of the south parts of America, not being known in the old continent.
The coils of the proximal colon encountered in many rodents are well seen in Dasyprocta agouti, the agouti (Figs.
Thus the large intestine in the agouti (Dasyprocta agouti), shows the development of the spiral coil advanced as far as the second turn of the original loop (Figs.
The paca and agouti belong to the peculiar family of the rodent order confined to South America, and which connects the Rodentia to the Pachydermata--the order to which the elephant, horse, and hog belong.
Kermit hunted industriously and brought in an occasional armadillo, coati, or agouti for the naturalists.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agouti" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
