Vintage Wild Animals, Vizcachas by Winifred Austen ポスター

Vintage illustration wild animals design featuring several Vizcachas and a Prairie Owl by Winifred Austen 1909. The plains vizcacha or viscacha (Lagostomus maximus) is a species of rodents in the family Chinchillidae. It is the only living species within the genus Lagostomus. It lives in Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina. The plains viscacha is the largest species in its family and weighs up to 9 kg. They build elaborate burrows that house successive colonies for decades. The plains viscacha can strip grasslands used for livestock to graze; this has caused ranchers to consider this rodent to be a pest.