BRIDGEPORT — A family visiting Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport got a bit of a scare Sunday afternoon when their little girl was bitten on the finger by a red-rumped agouti. Zoo spokesperson ...

Orlando Science Center is now home to a baby red-rumped agouti, an animal recently born inside the “Life” exhibit at the Loch Haven Park museum. The late July arrival was both a surprise and part of a ...

SUAMICO (WLUK) -- Zoo Director Neil Anderson is checking in with the red-rumped agouti and a bald eagle at the NEW Zoo. He also visited the trumpeter swans as they had their check-up at the animal ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – A small child visiting a Connecticut zoo has been bitten on the finger by a rodent native to South America. Lisa Clair, a spokeswoman for the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, tells the ...

A set of red-rumped agouti twins were born on Sept. 30 at the Stone Zoo. The twins, whose sexes are not yet known, can be seen on exhibit with their parents Fernanda and Habanero. Red-rumped agoutis, ...

We radio-tracked five red-rumped agoutis (Dasyprocta leporina) for two to nine months each at the Estação Ecológica Ilha de Maracá in the northern Brazilian Amazon. Agoutis fed primarily on seeds and ...

SUAMICO (WLUK) -- There are some new faces to meet at the NEW Zoo in Suamico. The zoo announced a new exhibit Thursday featuring a pair of Brazilian red-rumped agoutis. Agoutis are South American ...