🐹Capybara
카피바라 또는 큰카피바라 (학명: Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)는 남아메리카에 서식하는 현존하는 가장 큰 설치류이다. 카피바라속의 일원이며, 유일한 다른 현존하는 종은 작은카피바라(Hydrochoerus isthmius)이다. 가까운 친척으로는 기니피그와 바위캐비가 있으며, 아구티, 친칠라, 뉴트리아와는 더 먼 관계이다. 카피바라는 사바나와 울창한 숲에 서식하며, 물이 많은 수역 근처에 산다. 매우 사회적인 종으로, 최대 100마리까지 무리를 지을 수 있지만 보통 10~20마리씩 무리를 이룬다. 카피바라는 고기와 가죽, 두꺼운 지방질 피부에서 얻는 기름을 목적으로 사냥된다.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 ↑
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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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Figures vary
- 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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