. . "The Pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving hystricognath rodent indigenous to South America. Native peoples of the region call it the pacarana (false paca) because it is superficially similar to the paca, a different rodent which is not in the same family."@en . "VU" . . . "iucn3.1" . . "Pacarana"@en . . . .