This agouti lives in Brazilian forests. One zoo photograph shows a dark rump, and a report from a museum park that observed it with another species recorded agoutis burying seeds.
In the ASM Mammal Images Library photograph, one zoo animal has brown and golden tones across its back and a dark-looking rump.
A report from the Emílio Goeldi Museum park observed this species together with D. leporina and recorded agoutis burying seeds of Astrocaryum vulgare. The result was not separated by species.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.