Hey, Capybara! You've got some tough new competition for cutest rodent in all the land! Enter the red-rumped agouti, a total cutie, down to its booty! Here's a description of the cutie patootie ...

A male agouti made a brief escape from the National Zoo Monday night. Zoo officials say "Macadamia" escaped from his outdoor enclosure behind the Small Mammal House just after 7 p.m.

An agouti — a type of rodent about the size of a house cat and native to Central and South America — took unauthorized leave from his pen for about 30 minutes Monday, the zoo said.

The agouti ain’t no sewer rat: It’s actually a pivotal part of the rainforest ecosystem. Like a weird-looking squirrel, really. only without those obnoxious, oversized ears. You're trying too ...

The determined agouti who briefly escaped his cage at the Smithsonian National Zoo last month has died. Zoo officials say Macadamia, a South American rodent about the size of a large house cat ...

The agouti of Central and South America may be a rodent of unusual size, growing to two feet long, but don't even trip. It's kinda cute and really only eats nuts and fruits.

The Central American Agouti is one of the approximately 50 members of the order rodentia (rodents) to call this small country its home. They’re in a suborder called Caviomorpha which, for me, contains ...

Macadamia, a fuzzy brown rodent about the size of a house cat that’s called an agouti, got out of an enclosure Tuesday night at the National Zoo in Northwest Washington.

The agouti, a cat-size rodent, may be sustaining populations of tropical palms, a role formerly occupied by megafauna. Skip to main content. Scientific American. July 16, 2012. 3 min read.

Feed adult mothers a methyl-rich or genistein-rich diet, and DNA methylation lowers expression of the agouti gene in their offspring, shifting their coat color away from the classic agouti yellow and ...