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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Individuals separate for only a few hours at a time, to mate or forage.

Some features that are confined to one sex only of a particular species can be explained by selection exercised by the other sex in the choice of a mate, for example, the extravagant plumage of some male birds.

Conversely, birds of prey-which show distinct reverse sexual dimorphism — tend to be monogamous for long periods or mate for life ; some species like the Snail kite will choose new mates every year, polygyny is noted in many Harriers and polyandry has been observed in the Harris ' Hawk ( notable for being the only bird of prey to regularly live and hunt in family and social groups ) and the aforementioned Galapagos hawk.

These include cuckoldry, nuptial gifts, sperm competition, infanticide, physical beauty, mating by subterfuge, species isolation mechanisms, male parental care, ambiparental care, mate location, polygamy, and mechanisms that can only be called bizarre, including homosexual rape in certain male animals, cementing of females ' vaginal pores by males in some lepidopteran insects, and insect penises specialized to remove any sperm packets from females which may have been deposited by previous suitors.

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After thirty-five generations, the two groups and their offspring were isolated reproductively because of their strong habitat preferences: they mated only within the areas they preferred, and so did not mate with flies that preferred the other areas.

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For example, if only a few closely related males survive a natural disaster, and all are able to mate very widely due to lack of males, sexual selection has been suppressed by an ecological selection ( the disaster ).

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The males ' only tasks are to mate with the females while still within the fig syconium and to chew a hole for the females to escape from the fig interior.

Once the case is built, only adult males ever leave the case, never to return, when they take flight to find a mate.

The common hippopotamus gives birth and mates only in the water, but pygmy hippos mate and give birth on both land and water.

The ability to produce light only requires 1 % of the organism's energy and has many purposes: It is used to search for food and attract prey, like the anglerfish ; claim territory through patrol ; communicate and find a mate ; and distract or temporarily blind predators to escape.

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