. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. o4 THE RODENTS OR GNAWING Native Country The Paca is distributed over the of the greater part of South America, from Paca. Surinam in Dutch Guiana through- out Brazil to Paraguay, and is also found among the West Indies on the southern Antilles. The lonelier and wilder the locality the more abundantly is it found; in all cultivated regions its numbers have been greatly reduced. It delights in the edges of forests, wooded banks of rivers o
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. o4 THE RODENTS OR GNAWING Native Country The Paca is distributed over the of the greater part of South America, from Paca. Surinam in Dutch Guiana through- out Brazil to Paraguay, and is also found among the West Indies on the southern Antilles. The lonelier and wilder the locality the more abundantly is it found; in all cultivated regions its numbers have been greatly reduced. It delights in the edges of forests, wooded banks of rivers or swampy places. There it scoops out a burrow from three to six feet deep and spends the day in it sleeping. At dusk it goes out in quest of food, paying an occasional visit to sugar cane and melon plantations, in which it does considerable damage. At other times it feeds on leaves, flowers and the fruits of various plants. It lives either in couples or singly. The female gives birth to one or at the most two young in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Edward, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard. Chicago : Marquis
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