Days of Our Agoutis

So the agoutis, or neques as they are called here, have pretty much taken over the yard in the morning.  They come sniffing along for any fruit or nuts strewn about.  Sometimes we feed them bread sticks; they proceed to gnaw away as if they were extremely long cigarillos.  They tend to get into fights with the quails, and kind of stare at the lizards.  But the main thing they do is fight among themselves over food.  We stuck a couple of bananas into the fence hoping the monkeys would see it and get them, since if it's on the ground, the neques will get it first.  The birds were interested, but couldn't figure out how to eat the bananas - but they did manage to knock them to the ground.  (They also keep knocking over the bird feeder.)  So one neque eventually found the banana, and grabbed it with his mouth and started trotting off.  The other one came up behind him, obviously smelling the fruit, and kept trying to see what the other one had.  The one with the banana kept turning away from the other one to hide the banana.  However, a neque - which is about the size of a cat, without the tail - with a complete banana in his mouth, is not exactly a subtle sight.  So the one with the banana started running off, and the one without the banana started running after him.  Hey, it's a slow holiday morning, and I've got time to gaze out the window.