Facts about capybaras
Capybaras are animals from the rodent family. They are found in Central and South America, inhabiting areas with water. The capybaras live in family groups from 4 to 20 individuals. The animal feeds exclusively on grass. Capybaras are very interesting and harmless animals, possessing a calm temper and character. Learn more about them from your collection of interesting facts about capybara.
- Capybara is the largest rodent of all known.
- To communicate with each other capybaras use different sounds, they resemble a dog’s barking, grunting, purring, whistling, squealing.
- The capybara’s body is covered with water-repellent wool.
- Capybaras know how to dive and hold their breath under water for up to 5 minutes.
- The capybaras live in family groups. Each male is headed by a male leader.
- Brain capybaras the size of a lemon.
- Unlike all other rodents, kapibar babes can stand just a few minutes after birth and eat solid food on the fourth day.
- Mom-capybaras, in addition to their young, can feed other babies from their family.
- Each male capybara on the nose has a fragrant gland, and in females such gland is absent.
- The lifespan of Capybara in the wild from 8 to 10 years, in captivity, they live up to 12 years.
- In some regions of South America, capillar meat is used for food, the skin is used for different products, and fat is used in pharmaceuticals.
- For the love of water about 300 years ago, the priests of the Catholic Church carried the capybaras to the fishes and allowed them to consume their meat in fasting.
- Leather capybara burns in the sun. To protect your skin from burning, the hottest hours they spend in the water or lying in the mud.
- Kapiar has no clavicles.
- Capybaras have 66 chromosomes in a diploid set.
- Genital teeth of capybara grow throughout life.
- Female kapibar is larger in size than males.
- To eat, for a day capybara you need to eat about 3.5 kilograms of grass.
- The first Europeans called capybara “water pig”.
- For better digestion of food, capybaras eat their feces.