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A capybara eating hay at Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, Massachusetts. Capybaras are herbivores, grazing mainly on grasses and aquatic plants, [14] [24] as well as fruit and tree bark. [15] They are very selective feeders [25] and feed on the leaves of one species and disregard other species surrounding it. They eat a greater variety of plants ...
For example, trees evolved with fire-embracing traits can "sacrifice" themselves during fires. But they also cause fires to spread and kill their less flammable neighbors. With the help of other fire adaptive traits such as serotiny, flammable trees will occupy the gap created by fires and colonize the habitat. [20] [21]
Capybaras, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, prove rodents of unusual size aren’t just fiction. Native to South America, capybaras are the largest rodents in the world. They grow as long as 4.5 feet ...
In fact, capybaras are so good at making friends that entire Tumblrs exist solely to document their strong social game. Here they are, chillin' with an anteater Image: Tumblr
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.
Move over capybaras, there's a new tiny little critter we're totally obsessed with, and it has a rather surprising family tree. While the hyrax might look like a guinea pig, the African Wildlife ...
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Wattled jacanas are known to pick ticks off capybaras. [23] The stomach contents of jacanas have been found to include algae, as well as plant roots and stems, but it is thought that this may be incidentally ingested along with their invertebrate prey. [22] Most species have rounded wings and short tails. The flight tends to be slow and weak.