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the world's largest rodent, somehow the planet's most unbothered diplomat of chill.
means A large semi-aquatic South American rodent, the biggest in the world, known for its calm temperament and love of water.
from From the Tupi-Guaraní languages of South America, where the name is often traced to something like 'kapiÿva' — popularly glossed as 'one who eats slender leaves' or 'grass-eater,' though the exact parsing is debated. It reached English through Portuguese and Spanish settlers in Brazil and the surrounding regions, who borrowed the indigenous word wholesale, as Europeans tended to do when meeting an animal they had no name for.
- size
- Largest rodent alive, up to 150 pounds
- social skills
- Birds, monkeys, even crocodiles lounge on them
- swim gear
- Webbed feet make it a powerful swimmer
- underwater
- Can stay submerged for five minutes
- diet
- Eats its own droppings for extra nutrients
capybara of llanos venezuela — seasonal herds in venezuelan grasslands that can number thousands during wet season
capybara of pantanal brazil — world's largest wetland in brazil hosts massive concentrations during dry season water gathering