🐹Capybara
El carpincho, capibara, chigüire, ronsoco o chigüiro (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), entre otras denominaciones, es una especie de roedor caviomorfo de la familia de los cávidos, nativa de Sudamérica. Se trata del roedor viviente de mayor tamaño y peso del mundo. El otro miembro existente de ese género es el capibara menor (Hydrochoerus isthmius). Sus parientes cercanos incluyen a los conejillos de indias y los mocós, y está relacionado más lejanamente con el agutí, la chinchilla y el coipo. Habita humedales y bosques densos y vive cerca de masas de agua. Es una especie muy social y se puede encontrar en grupos de hasta cien individuos, pero por lo general vive en grupos de diez a veinte individuos. El animal es cazado por su carne, piel (para indumentaria) y por la grasa contenida en su piel.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 52 kg
- Body length
- 1.25 m
- Shoulder height
- 0.57 m
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 15 years
Everything we know about the Capybara
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass52 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 55 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length1.25 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Shoulder height0.57 m0.5–0.62 m · typical rangeat withersDetails ↓Hide ↑
"height at withers, 566 (500 to 620, n = 92)" (mm) - mean and extremes for 92 Llanos animals; sex not stated. ADW gives a consistent "standing up to 0.6 meters at the shoulder".
Source: Mones & Ojasti 1986, Mammalian Species 264:1-7 (data of Ojasti 1973, Llanos population), https://doi.org/10.2307/3503784 · see citation
Brain mass67 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan15 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 15 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length5.56 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.6 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation151 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 150 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter sizeabout 3COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4.8AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.07 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density7.01 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l52 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Capybara yet: top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familyCaviidae
- ›genusHydrochoerus
- ›speciesHydrochoerus hydrochaeris
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- familyHydrochaeridae
- genusHydrochoerus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderHystricomorpha
- familyHydrochaeridae
- genusHydrochoerus
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