Though the birds inhabit the Vizcacha village all the year, they seem always to make a fresh hole to breed in every spring, the forsaken holes being given up to the small Swallow, Atticora cyanoleuca.
When a vizcacha dies in his burrow the carcass is, after some days, dragged out and left upon the mound.
It is difficult to compel a vizcacha to enter a burrow not his own; even when hotly pursued by dogs they often refuse to do so.
The vizcacha falls an easy victim to this subtle creature; and it is not to be wondered at that it becomes wild to excess, and rare in regions hunted over by such an enemy, even when all other conditions are favourable to its increase.
One of these marsupials appears so much at home on the plains that I almost regret having said that the vizcacha alone gives us the idea of being in its habits the product of the pampas.
But as soon as these wild regions are settled by man the pumas are exterminated, and the sole remaining foe of the vizcacha is the fox, comparatively an insignificant one.
While out tinamou shooting one day in autumn, near my own home in La Plata, I spied a troop of about a dozen weasels racing madly about over a vizcacha village--the mound and group of pit-like burrows inhabited by a community of vizcachas.
When the vizcacha has made his habitation, it is but a single burrow, with only himself for an inhabitant, perhaps for many months.
The language of the vizcacha is wonderful for its variety.
If the dog is a novice, the instant he spies the animal he rushes violently at it; the vizcacha waits the charge with imperturbable calmness till his enemy is within one or two yards, and then disappears into the burrow.
It is reported from one to another until every vizcacha is safe in his burrow.
Even when pursued by fierce dogs a vizcacha will rarely enter a room of another.
They view a human stranger with a mixture of fear and curiosity, sometimes allowing him to come within five or six paces of them; in desert regions, however, where enemies are numerous, the Vizcacha is very timid and wary.
Unlike most other burrowing species, the Vizcacha prefers to work on open level spots.
A Vizcacha never enters another's burrow, and if by chance driven into one by dogs will emerge speedily, apparently finding that the danger within is greater than the danger without.
It is not easy to tell what induces a Vizcacha to found a new community, for they increase very slowly, and are very fond of each other's society.
The hospitality of the Vizcachadoes not, however, extend to his burrow; he has a very strong feeling with regard to the sanctity of the burrow.
The Vizcacha (Lagostomus trichodactylus) is a large Rodent inhabiting a vast extent of country in the pampas of La Plata, Patagonia, etc.
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