Cuniculus paca small and gentle animal in danger of extinction by @luishernadez
Cuniculus paca
Greetings friends of the community of World of Xpilar, I hope you are very well, today I bring you a beautiful sculpture of a peculiar little animal that inhabits the forests and jungles from Mexico to Argentina, I mean the Cuniculus paca. The cunniculus paca is a small rodent that lives in almost the entire American continent, depending on the country it has several names: common paca, guagua, or tepezcuintle, in Venezuela we call it "lapa". Wikipedia gives more information about this little animal.
The lowland paca (Cuniculus paca), also known as the spotted paca, is a large rodent found in tropical and sub-tropical America, from east-central Mexico to northern Argentina, and has been introduced to Cuba and Algeria. The animal is called paca in most of its range, but tepezcuintle (original Aztec language name) in most of Mexico and Central America, guardatinaja in Nicaragua, pisquinte in northern Costa Rica, jaleb in the Yucatán peninsula, conejo pintado in Panama, guanta in Ecuador, majás or picuro in Peru, jochi pintado in Bolivia, and boruga,[4] tinajo,[5] or guartinaja in Colombia. It is also known as the gibnut in Belize, where it is prized as a game animal, labba in Guyana, lapa in Venezuela, and lappe on the island of Trinidad. Although lowland pacas are not in danger of being extinct, local extinctions have occurred due to habitat destructions.
I made this sculpture in wood, painted with acrylic paint as a tribute to this gentle creature that, despite being present in almost all of America, is in danger of extinction due to indiscriminate hunting, because it is considered pests of crops or because of its meat that it's very tasty. For loving the animals of the Venezuelan fauna, I respect them and I have had the opportunity to see them in their natural habitat, it is very funny, it is the only rodent that eats by grabbing its food (fruits or berries) with its two little legs just as it is in sculpture. My call would be to stop their hunting and promote the repopulation of this beautiful creature of our nature.
And this is all in this publication. I hope you have liked this sculpture that I made with special affection for this species that we must take care of because otherwise it will soon be extinct forever, leaving one more void in our mother nature. See you soon friends
| Sculptor | Luis Hernandez @luishernadez |
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| Sculpture | Cunniculus Paca or Lapa |
| Materials | wood, acrylic paint, glue |
| Date | November 2021 |