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title: "Paka górska"
description: "Cuniculus taczanowskii — Ssaki. The mountain paca (Cuniculus taczanowskii) is a small burrow-dwelling rodent whose habitats are high altitude South American forests."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/mountain-paca
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Paka górska

> Cuniculus taczanowskii — Ssaki. The mountain paca (Cuniculus taczanowskii) is a small burrow-dwelling rodent whose habitats are high altitude South American forests.

- Scientific name: *Cuniculus taczanowskii*
- Category: `mammals` (Ssaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las), `mountains` (Góry)
- iNaturalist observations: 72
- Wikidata: [Q1034944](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1034944)
- iNaturalist taxon: [74258](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/74258)

## Names

- en: Mountain Paca
- de: Bergpaka
- es: Paca de montaña
- fr: Agouti taczanowskii
- nl: Bergpaca
- pl: Paka górska

## Countries with the most observations

CO (22), EC (15), PE (3)

## Summary

The mountain paca (Cuniculus taczanowskii) is a small burrow-dwelling rodent whose habitats are high altitude South American forests. Pacas are nocturnal, sedentary, and solitary animals with territorial tendencies. It eats mostly fruits and seeds. The mountain paca primarily inhabits higher Andean montane forest regions in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
This paca has coarse fur without underfur, dark brown to black on the upper body and white or yellowish on the underbelly. It usually has three to five rows of white spots along its sides, against a dark grey background. It has thick strong legs,…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_paca

## Photo

![Paka górska](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mountain-paca/medium.jpg)

Photo: Allan Harris · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/265114843

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mountain-paca?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).