Capybaras have slightly webbed feet and vestigial tails.

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 herbivores, grazing mainly on grasses and aquatic plants, as well as fruit and tree bark.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

C'mon, buddy, help me set up the kitchen and we'll have food in a minute or two ''.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

I don't propose to go into their history, but I have one or two surmises.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

Blackman called the porter and had him remove everything but one bottle of brandy, and after that they would have a cocktail or two before dinner, or, on one of their walking trips, beer, or, in France and Italy, wine in moderation.

This session, for instance, may have insured a financial crisis two years from now.

To almost two generations of Americans it must have seemed as though the existence of Mr. Sam coincided with that of the House.

The two cities have the examples of Little Rock and New Orleans to hold up as warnings against resorting to violence to try to stop the processes of desegregation.

We in East Greenwich have the example of two neighboring communities, one currently utilizing double sessions in their schools, and the other facing this prospect next year.

Since two of these could be trustees of the college, actually it would be necessary to have the consent of only one elected official to impose a levy of millions of dollars of tax revenue.

A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years ''.

So the Commission's announcements of the new Soviet shots have been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually left vague.

The military in Taiwan believe that the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal.

They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.

The two in the bed knew each other as old people know the partners with whom they have shared the same bed for many years, and they needed to say no more.