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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 ).
Yanagihara received rave reviews for her novel. [4] The New York Times called her "a writer to marvel at", while The Guardian called the book an "ambitious debut". [5] [6] A review in The Independent was also overwhelmingly positive, calling the novel "an absorbing, intelligent and uncompromising novel, which beguiles and unnerves".
The Wump World (1970) is a children's book by Bill Peet that takes place on an imaginary planet. It is about the near destruction of the only habitat of creatures known as Wumps. These Wumps look somewhat like a cross between a capybara (sometimes called a water hog) and a moose.
Author Tracey J Morgan pens a book about the capybara's great escape from her zoo enclosure.
"A herd of capybaras surprised a woman in Brasilia recently, as they walked in single file down the street outside her house," the caption reads. Clearly this is the cutest thing that's ever happened.
Capybaras are not currently endangered in their native South America, although they are threatened by habitat loss. They have widely been hunted for food by people and predators from jaguars to ...
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 third category lists hoax diaries, that were presented as being true diaries of real people when first published, but were later discovered to be fiction. Go Ask Alice , the first of a number of books by Beatrice Sparks purported to be based on diaries of real teenagers, was originally presented by Sparks as the non-fictional diary of an ...