How Capybaras Outwit Big Cats
Nick Garbutt was leading a photography trip in the tropical wetlands and flooded savannas of Brazil's Pantanal area when he found a dark shadow in the brush. It was a jaguar, and the feline was stalking a household of capybaras chomping plants at the edge of the Paraguay River. Jaguars are nimble swimmers and have actually been understood to prey on turtles, crocodiles, and even dolphins, one of their preferred foods is capybara-- the world's biggest rodent, about the size of a mature gray wolf.In locations like the Pantanal where jaguar populations are especially thick, capybaras tend to stick near rivers and other bodies of water. Despite the fact that jaguars do not mind getting damp, capybaras have a higher opportunity of swimming to security than scooting away on land. The semi-aquati...