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What is an agouti?

What is an agouti? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A rodent similar in appearance to a guinea pig but having longer legs.
  2. A fur containing a pattern of pigmentation in which individual hairs have several bands of light and dark pigment with black tips; any of several genes responsible for this pigmentation.
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Breed standards permit any color except the Siamese pattern or Abyssinian type agouti.
Land crabs, river crayfish, opossum, agouti, and fish are caught where available.
It was early and the forest was quiet, and I was looking for an agouti, a cat-sized rodent and subject of Enrique Ortiz's recent research.
These include the capybara, the agouti, the coypu, the cavy and the chinchilla.
One gene encodes a protein called agouti, which normally signals skin cells called melanocytes to produce a reddish-yellow pigment.
If they can see a tabby pattern in the fur, then the cat must be agouti, whereas if the colors are solid then the cat is nonagouti.

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