The US National Research Council draws attention to one special feature about the capybara as food. |
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These include the capybara, the agouti, the coypu, the cavy and the chinchilla. |
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You notice that, although it's a fine article, it fails to mention the world's largest living rodent, the capybara. |
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The skull of a capybara is very much like that of a guinea pig, except that it is very much larger and more robust. |
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The monkeys swung in haste through the wide branches of the red cedars, the capybara and tapir rushed for safety to the palm and mango groves. |
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It will hunt, for example, that capybara, if it's a young capybara. |
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Among the 72 species of native fauna, the country deer, the guazubirá, the capybara and the armadillo stand out especially. |
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In South America the capybara, a giant rodent weighing between 40 and 60 kg, has long been the object of intense exploitation. |
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Wildlife includes around 50 species of reptile, 230 fish species, 650 species of birds and 80 species of mammals, among them giant river otter, marsh deer, capybara, tapir and jaguar. |
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The trade in wildlife in South America is also growing and wild animals such as monkeys, birds, capybara and other large rodents, as well as tapirs, armadillos and deer, are for sale. |
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Ascorbic acid is also not synthesized by at least two species of Caviidae, the capybara and the guinea pig. |
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They range in size from the tiny, third-of-an-ounce pygmy rice rat to the world's largest rodent, the 140-pound capybara. |
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There are plenty of motor boat tours, but the ideal way to get up close with the world's largest rodent, the capybara, and other wildlife is bycanoe. |
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We pull over on the rickety planks to watch capybara and marsh deer nibbling the greenery and countless yacaré caiman – the local crocodiles – cruising the waterways. |
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The rhinos in the Africa house, the elephants in the elephant house as well as the tapir and capybara in the exotarium will provide lasting impressions. |
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Several species of deer and rabbit, the anteater and armadillo, the tapir, the jaguar, and the largest living rodent, the capybara, also can be found. |
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