Lowland paca (Cuniculus paca)
OH NO THE MORE PICTURES I FIND, THE CUTER IT GETS
The animal is called paca in most of its range, but tepezcuintle [mountain dog] (original Aztec language name) in most of Mexico and Central America, tepesquintle in Guatemala, guardatinaja in Nicaragua, pisquinte in northern Costa Rica, jaleb in the Yucatán peninsula, conejo pintado in Panama, guanta in Ecuador, majás or picuro in Peru, jochi pintado in Bolivia, and boruga, tinajo, or guartinaja in Colombia. It is also known as the gibnut in Belize, where it is prized as a game animal, labba in Guyana, lapa in Venezuela, and lappe on the island of Trinidad.
And all those names mean “friend shaped”.











