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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 ...
Capybaras are semiaquatic, found in and near lakes, rivers, swamps, and flooded savanna. Their diets are dominated by grasses. Adults weigh up to 65 kg (143 lb). The gestation period is 130–150 days, with two to eight (most commonly four) young born to females.
Females give birth to two or three furred and active young after a gestation period of 50 to 90 days in most species, or 150 days in the capybara. In most species, they are sexually mature within a few months of birth, although in capybaras, maturity is not reached until around 18 months. [2] Social organisation varies widely among the group.
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 ...
Capybaras eat plants, including water plants like lake grasses and weeds, and love to swim so much they are widely considered to be semi-aquatic. They have webbed feet and can stay submerged for ...
A baby capybara who went viral last week by dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" has been given a new name by her adoring public, a Miami zoo announced on Monday.
Altricial birds are less able to contribute nutrients in the pre-natal stage; their eggs are smaller and their young are still in need of much attention and protection from predators. This may be related to r/K selection; however, this association fails in some cases. [18] In birds, altricial young usually grow faster than precocial young.
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 ...