Capybaras are semiaquatic mammals found throughout almost all countries of South America ( except Chile ) in densely forested areas near bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, swamps, ponds and marshes, as well as flooded savannah and along rivers in tropical forest.

Capybaras are coprophagous, meaning they eat their own feces as a source of bacterial gut flora, to help digest the cellulose in the grass that forms their normal diet, and to extract the maximum protein and vitamins from their food.

Capybaras are very gregarious.

Capybaras are very vocal and, when in groups, chatter with each other to establish social bonds, dominance or general group census.

Capybaras are excellent swimmers, and can remain completely submerged for up to five minutes, an ability they use to evade predators.

Capybaras are on the IUCN list, but are not considered a threatened species ; their population is stable through most of their South American range, though in some areas, hunting has reduced their numbers.

Capybaras are hunted for their meat and pelts in some areas, and otherwise killed by humans who see their grazing as competition for livestock.

Capybaras are gentle and will usually allow humans to pet and hand-feed them.

Capybaras are occasionally kept as pets in the United States, though it is illegal in some states and in various other countries.

Ring-Tailed Lemurs, Capybaras ( the largest rodent in the world ) and other animals are free to roam around the park.

Today universities and some governments are interested in developing farming of Pacas, and also Capybaras ( a cousin of Pacas ).

Capybaras have two different scent glands ; a morillo, located on the snout, and an anal gland.

It rarely perches on cattle, unlike some of its relatives, but in Brazil it will ride on Capybaras as it removes horse flies.

Capybaras have slightly webbed feet and vestigial tails.

Capybaras mate only in water, and if a female does not want to mate with a certain male, she will either submerge or leave the water.

Capybaras can sleep in water if need be, only keeping their noses out of the water.

Capybaras can be found in many areas in zoos and parks, and may live for 12 years in captivity.

Capybaras live in groups of around ten individuals, and sometimes many more, each with a single dominant male, and a number of females, subordinate males, and juveniles.

She is not good at telling things like hippos or Capybaras, but she gets along with Supushan and calls Dokoson ' Honey.

After the depletion of the Black caiman population, piranhas and Capybaras ( Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris ), having lost perhaps their primary predator, reached unnaturally high numbers.

In the lakes one finds Yacare Caimans and Capybaras.

A variety of galling insects are among the most specialized and diverse herbivores on the planet, and their extensive protections against abiotic stress factors have helped the insect in gaining that position of honor.

Beavers are herbivores, and prefer the wood of quaking aspen, cottonwood, willow, alder, birch, maple and cherry trees.

Carnassials are a key adaptation for terrestrial vertebrate predation ; all other placental orders are primarily herbivores, insectivores, or aquatic.

In plants, cyanides are usually bound to sugar molecules in the form of cyanogenic glycosides and defend the plant against herbivores.

These feces contain substantial amounts of semi-digested food ( herbivores ' digestive systems are especially inefficient ).

As plants grow, they accumulate nutrients and are eaten by grazing herbivores, and the energy is transferred through a chain of organisms by consumption.

The organisms that consume their tissues are called primary consumers or secondary producers — herbivores.

Indrids are herbivores, eating mostly leaves, fruits and flowers.

Manatees are herbivores and eat over 60 different plant species, such as mangrove leaves, turtle grass, and types of algae.

Macrolides are not to be used on non-ruminant herbivores, such as horses and rabbits.

Okapis are herbivores, eating tree leaves and buds, grass, ferns, fruit, and fungi.

Despite the high content of chemicals that are noxious to herbivores, some have evolved the ability to withstand the chemical defences of pepper plants, for example the sematurine moth Homidiana subpicta or some flea beetles of the genus Lanka.

Rabbits are herbivores that feed by grazing on grass, forbs, and leafy weeds.

Manatees and the dugong are the only marine mammals classified as herbivores.

Most ungulates are herbivores, but a few are omnivores or even predators ( mesonychids and whales ).

The main Africa Enclosure, where many of the herbivores are given free-range

Sifakas are herbivores, eating leaves, flowers and fruits.

When prey ( plants ) are numerous their predators ( herbivores ) increase in numbers, reducing the prey population, which in turn causes predator number to decline.

Kleiber ’ s law states that the metabolic rate ( q < sub > 0 </ sub >) of an animal is the mass of the animal ( M ) raise to the 3 / 4 power: q < sub > 0 </ sub >= M < sup > 3 / 4 </ sup > Therefore, the mass of the animal increases at a faster rate than the metabolic rate. There are many types of feeding strategies employed by herbivores.

The appearance of grasses during the Eocene and their subsequent spread during the Miocene ( about 20 million years ago ) saw a major change ; grasses are very difficult to eat and the even-toed ungulates with their highly-developed stomachs were better able to adapt to this coarse, low-nutrition diet, and soon replaced the odd-toed ungulates as the dominant terrestrial herbivores.

Hemiptera are mostly herbivores or omnivores but pollen feeding is known ( and has only been well studied in the Anthocoridae ).

Because Triceratops teeth, horn fragments, frill fragments, and other skull fragments are such abundant fossils in the Lancian faunal stage of the late Maastrichtian ( late Cretaceous, 68 to 65 mya ) Period of western North America, it is regarded as among the dominant herbivores of the time, if not the most dominant herbivore.