vizcacha

noun

viz·ca·cha

variant spelling of viscacha

: any of several South American burrowing rodents (genera Lagostomus and Lagidium) closely related to the chinchilla

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Even the animals feel like something out of a fairytale—the camel-lama-deer hybrid called the guanaco, the bunny-squirrel-cat mix called the vizcacha, and the pumas, who, as the hotel will explain, are always watching. —