







Pacific sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura semicaudata)
📸 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (CC BY)
People need to be aware that this animal actually exists. It’s called a viscacha.
They live in South America mainly in the Andes mountains and grasslands of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
There are two types: mountain viscachas (rocky cliffs) and plains viscachas (underground burrows).
They’re rodents, closely related to chinchillas, even though they look like a rabbit-squirrel mix.