The agouti is a little animal resembling a rabbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference

Now the agouti is a very large rodent from Central and South America.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007] Reference

The specialist's hat makes a noise like an agouti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

The taxonomy of agouti species needs clarification.    From Wordnik.com.  [15 Agouti] Reference

HANNA: The agouti is from central South America, as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference

In the photo, the two agouti mice are genetically identical.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Epigenetic Science Award Presented in Groundbreaking Ceremony] Reference

KING: Not if we would like the agouti to live through the segment.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007] Reference

Patagonia the guanaco replaces the gazelle, and the agouti the hare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

And this animal hunted a great deal for food, the little agouti here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 29, 2006] Reference

The other enemies of the cacao are the agouti, stag, squirrel, monkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Where the rainforest is destroyed, the agouti population is destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [15 Agouti] Reference

And this animal is hunted a great deal for food, the little agouti here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2009] Reference

"I am sure now that I saw her go over the side in the arms of an agouti.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time of the Transference]

"That animal was only an agouti, but once there was a very bad small snake.".    From Wordnik.com.  [River Of Desire]

But we probably don't want to put the agouti up here while that animal is up here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007] Reference

The largest native animals we find to be the armadillo, the agouti, and the iguana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journey to Puerto Rico : for Intermediate and Upper Grades For Intermediate and Upper Grades] Reference

Preliminary observations on reproduction in the Central American agouti, Dasyprocta punctata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

In these mice, the agouti gene has been activated, and so, Jirtle thought, perhaps it could be deactivated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Origins] Reference

Early examples include the agouti, a land tortoise, and even the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Caribbean Islands] Reference

An agouti and a cabiai, not to mention a dozen partridges, enriched the larder after this fortunate excursion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

Darwin provides examples such as the rhea and ostrich, agouti and rabbit, coypu and beaver, capybara and muskrat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Convergence] Reference

Her fur was a lovely agouti coloring a gold, brown, and gray blend and was very thick and luxurious, perfect for outdoors.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Animals Speak] Reference

The brown mice still carried the gene, but didn't suffer the same legacy because the new diet had turned off the agouti gene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Gavigan: How to Green Your Genes] Reference

Do you know of the nutritional value of certain rodent/varmint nutria, agouti, and guinea pig make marvelous Easter brunch ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Price expands GOP repeal campaign: We should repeal all of TARP, the stimulus, and ‘the bailout philosophy.’] Reference

Apart from introduced opossum Didelphys marsupialis and agouti Dasyprocta agouti, there are no terrestrial mammals in the area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morne Trois Pitons, Dominica] Reference

By now, the color variations have spun out far beyond the golden agouti gerbils that my own father once raised by the thousands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Robinson: The American Gerbil Show: What Our Pets Teach Us] Reference

Only later would the hair develop the dark and light bars of the typical agouti coloration of an adult wolf -- if it would at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mammoth Hunters]

So this is a very important animal to the rain forest, as well as a source of food for many people who live there -- called the agouti.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 29, 2006] Reference

It includes the tapir, the agouti, the guinea-pig, and the peccari.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference

Tail DNA samples from agouti offspring were genotyped by Southern hybridization.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Having made a good breakfast on the agouti, we once more embarked, and glided down the stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Banks of the Amazon] Reference

World, in easy, elegant coils, digesting a small rodent somewhat like a hare and called an agouti.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference