Agouti in a sentence as a noun

Your first example — agouti mouse coat colour — is essentially the only firmly established example of TEI in mammals.

But they eat, I observe, a very large proportion of fat, which is of a less animalized nature; and they particularly dislike dry meat, such as that of the agouti.

Outside of the agouti locus there’s almost no high-quality, replicated evidence for its existence, and the hypothesis is fundamentally hindered by the lack of a plausible mechanism [1].

Agouti definitions

noun

agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food