Pretty big: the Capybara reaches up to 60 cm shoulder height - Image: Shutterstock / EBFoto Capybara, also known as capybara, is an extraordinary rodent: it resembles its close relative, the guinea pig, and spends a large part of its day in the water. 
Pretty big: the Capybara reaches up to 60 cm shoulder height - Image: Shutterstock / EBFoto 
Posing for the snapshot: A small group of Capybaras - Image: Shutterstock / ckchiu 
Capybaras are also called capybaras. No wonder then ... - Image: Shutterstock / eddo 
... during the day you almost always meet them in the water - Image: Shutterstock / Vadim Petrakov 
They cool off in the shallow water on hot days. If there is danger, they flee into the deep water - Image: Shutterstock / ckchiu 
They are excellent swimmers, but they also like to run ashore - Image: Shutterstock / Volga 
Capybaras feed on grasses, aquatic plants and sometimes stolen goods from plantations - Image: Shutterstock / Attila JANDI 
Aren't they cute? Capybara babies stay with their mother for the first few months - Image: Shutterstock / Stephen Meese 
Up to eight young can belong to one litter - Image: Shutterstock / kerstiny 
The Capybara not only looks like the guinea pig, it is also closely related to it - Image: Shutterstock / kerstiny
