Capybara walking with Pink Ipê trees in the background in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, Brazil🐹

Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesRodentiaCaviidae
Mammals

🐹Capybara

Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris (Linnaeus, 1766)

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.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Capybara

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
52 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 55 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
1.25 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Shoulder height
0.57 m0.5–0.62 m · typical rangeat withers
Details ↓

"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 mass
67 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 15 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
5.56 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
1.6 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
151 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 150 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
about 3
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.8AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
0.07 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
7.01 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
52 Laverage
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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.

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More about the Capybara

Closest relative on this site
🐭 Guinea pig — last shared an ancestor ≈ 17 million years ago.
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants90%
fruit10%
In other languages
kapibara wielka (pl), Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris (es), vízidisznó (hu), Καπιμπάρα (el), Kapybara (sv), capibara (nl) … and 27 more languages

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