Their story, personality and the details worth observing in person.
Meet Pampa
Pampa is an invented editorial name for this provisional profile. In the sample story, the animal curiously explores keeper-provided enrichment and often chooses the same quiet spot to rest. This individual profile does not describe a real specimen and will be replaced by Bioparco.
An individual, not just a species
The identity card of Pampa
- Sex
- non specificato
- Origin
- The individual name, sex and story are invented provisional editorial content; scientific information refers to the species.
Verifiable facts and scientific language
Species profile
Patagonian mara
Dolichotis patagonum
The patagonian mara is a long-legged large rodent resembling a small hare.
- Class
- Mammalia
- Diet
- Herbivore
- IUCN status
- NT Near Threatened Near Threatened (NT) It is not currently threatened, but may become so in the near future. IUCN Red List classification
- Natural habitat
- Steppes, grasslands and arid scrub.
- Distribution
- Central and southern Argentina.
- Feeding
- Grasses and other plants.
- Characteristics
- A long-legged large rodent resembling a small hare.
One fact to take home
Observe, connect, remember
Pairs are often stable and several families may share communal dens.