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Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Capybara Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris (Linnaeus, 1766) South America: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Lesser capybara Hydrochoerus isthmius Goldman, 1912: eastern Panama, northwestern Colombia, and western Venezuela. Size: Habitat: Diet: DD
The capybara [a] or greater capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is the largest living rodent, [2] native to South America. It is a member of the genus Hydrochoerus . The only other extant member is the lesser capybara ( Hydrochoerus isthmius ).
They range in size from the smaller cavies at 22 cm in body length, and 300 grams in weight, up to the capybara, the largest of all rodents at 106 to 134 cm in length, and body weights of 35 to 66 kilograms. Even larger forms existed in the Pliocene, such as Phugatherium, which was about the size of a tapir. [1]
Baby capybaras are called “pups” which is adorable, and are usually born in litters of four. Perhaps this capybara has siblings just out of the range of the camera, or maybe something untoward ...
Lesser capybara range The kookoopadda ( Hydrochoerus isthmius ) [ 2 ] or lesser capybara , is a large semi-aquatic rodent found in South America that has vast similarities, yet subtle differences, with the common Capybara ( Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris ), the largest species of rodent in the world.
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A female capybara has arrived at a Florida zoo as part of a breeding program to bolster the population of the large South American rodents. Iyari, a 10-month-old capybara, went to the Palm Beach ...
Desmarest's hutia (Capromys pilorides), a member of a rodent family known only from the Caribbean.. The Caribbean region is home to a diverse and largely endemic rodent fauna. . This includes the endemic family Capromyidae (hutias), which are largely limited to the Greater Antilles, and two other groups of endemic hystricognaths, the heteropsomyines and giant hutias, including the extinct bear ...