Rodents
Oops, after a much too jolly dinner, I suffered a mental lapse, momentarily confusing the most ch-chi rodent with the largest one. They do both live in South America, where so many of you yearn to place Nessus etc. Apologies, glam and lice-infested one.
-slima
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.