Laba

[James A. Landau]

URL <A HREF="http://amazonas.rds.org.co/libros/48/Texto.htm">http://amazonas.rds.org.co/libros/48/Texto.htm</A>   (in Spanish)

The "laba" is better known in English as the "agouti".  It is the Agouti paca
of Family Agoutidae.

In Venezuela it is called "lapa" or "laba", in Columbia "boruga", in Brazil
"paca", in Guyana "labba" [apparently spelled with only one "b" in tourist
restaurants], and in Panama "conejo pintado".

Barry Popik may or may not be interested in the photographs on this Web site,
but I am sure he will be glad to know that laba meat is 19.56 percent protein
and 7.53 percent fat.

     - James A. Landau