capybara
Americannoun
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capybaras
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of capybara
1765–75; < New Latin < Portuguese capibara < Tupi
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"The car park was full, it was like a bank holiday. Everybody coming to see the capybara babies," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Two rare snow leopard cubs have been born at the park, alongside Himalayan monals and red deer, as well as Bru the capybara, Snoot the giant armadillo and Atty the sloth at Edinburgh Zoo.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Older residents and long-serving zoo staff remember another capybara that evaded capture for more than two months along the same stretch of river.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
It occurred to him that his experience tracking deer and bird populations might lend itself to hunting a capybara.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Often a capybara would stand or sit on its haunches in the water, with only its blunt, short-eared head above the surface, quite heedless of our presence.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt
The fund supports projects locally with Manx Wildlife Trust and internationally, including work in the Pantanal, where wild capybaras live.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
On social media, people have gotten even more creative, photoshopping capybaras into Southampton destinations like pubs, shopping malls and the local soccer club’s stadium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
We counted nine capybaras: an adult male, four adult females, and four medium-sized pups.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
It’s one of the largest concentrations of capybaras in São Paulo, though its exact number of members fluctuates.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
We frequently came across ponds tenanted by numbers of capybaras.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt
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