The Viscacha is related to the chinchilla which is found in many pet stores and may be a better choice. If you have a strong desire to purchase a Viscacha a trip to south america might be needed, because you would only be able to get it from residents or hunters of areas where they live.
Viscacha rat was created in 1920.
Plains Viscacha Rat was created in 1941.
Viscacha is pronounced as "vis-kah-chuh." The emphasis is on the second syllable.
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Viscacha.
Rabbits Evolve to Viscachas
carpincho,capybaras,viscacha,and hawkeagle
Mountain viscachas are reputed to eat just about any plant they encounter. Their diet is principally composed of grasses, mosses and lichens.
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Chinchillas are rodents so they are related to guinea pigs, mice, rats, etc but their closest relative and only other member of the Chinchillidae family is the Viscacha, a rabbit-like animals.
The Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine is a porcupine species in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The plains viscacha is a species of Chinchilla rodent in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Peruvian bamboo rat is a species of rodent in Bolivia and Peru.
Would have to live outside like every other rabbit. Two problems: 1) the hawks. If a hawk will eat a rabbit, a chipmunk, a squirrel, a field mouse, it would definitely make a meal of a viscacha. 2) Winter. What's it going to do when it's 10 degrees and five inches of snow? Hibernate? Bring it inside until spring?