It is one of the common names of a small American rodent, scientific name Dasyprocta punctata of the Family Dasyproctidae. It is also called añuje, picure, zerete, ñeque, guatín, sereque, cotuza, jochi, cherenga, guatuza and sihuayro.
I interpret this belief of Eastern religions as an invisible spiritual energy, but somehow intuited that surrounds us like a second nature acquired on the basis of our past actions good or bad and the reincarnated ancestors, so this is the result of the past and the conditioning of the future. Perhaps the closest to the karma Western Word is the character that each one will conforming with the conduct. It is true that easterners give a more transcendent dimension and understand it as a cosmic law.