The capybara in Everland, Korea can actually take an open-air hot spring bath! This kind of animal is covered with fur. Isn't it afraid of heat?

In Longren City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, the capybara in Everland is enjoying an open-air hot spring bath leisurely. Because of its natural growth environment and animal characteristics, it is not afraid of heat. Let's see why it is not afraid of heat.

The capybara is a semi-aquatic herbivore and the largest rodent in the world. The capybara is distributed in tropical and temperate regions east of the Andes in South America, and was later introduced to Florida and other subtropical regions in the United States. The life span of wild capybara is about 10 years old.

Boundary: animals in the animal kingdom

Door: Chordata, Chordata.

Class: mammals

Objective: Rodents.

Family: guinea pig family.

Genus: capybara? Aquatic animals

Type: capybara? aquatic animal

The capybara's body looks heavy, barrel-shaped, and looks like an oversized guinea pig. Its upper fur is reddish brown and its lower part is yellowish brown.

The capybara has webbed feet, which helps to swim. The tail has degenerated, leaving only a trace. The hind legs are slightly longer than the front legs, with three toes and four toes respectively.

Blunt nose and mouth, eyes and ears on the upper side. There are only two front teeth and two canine teeth in the upper palate, two front teeth and two canine teeth in the lower palate, and six molars and molars in the lower palate.

The capybara is distributed in southern Brazil, Bolivia, northern Argentina, southeastern Colombia, Venezuela and Paraguay in South America. Later, it was introduced to Florida and other subtropical areas in the United States.

The capybara is a herbivore, which mainly feeds on grass, aquatic plants, bark and fruits. The capybara is very picky about food, and often only eats one kind, without touching other plants around it. But in the dry season, because food is reduced, its diet will expand. Therefore, compared with grazing in rainy season, reed will be eaten in dry season. Its jaw can't move vertically, so it can only chew back and forth.

Capybara also eats feces. They will eat their own excrement to maintain the number of intestinal flora, ensure the normal digestion of cellulose and reabsorb nutrients. Besides, I know how to ruminate. Like other rodents, capybara's front teeth will continue to grow to offset the wear and tear caused by grazing. In fact, their buccal teeth will continue to grow.

The capybara is a semi-aquatic animal, which lives in the dense forest near the water and can also be found in some savannahs. They live in groups around the nest 10 hectare, with high density. Capybara runs fast on land and is flexible in water. He is an excellent swimmer. To avoid predators, you can stay underwater for five minutes.

The capybara can even fall asleep in the water. On a hot afternoon, the capybara may not go into the water until evening, so the capybara only eats at dawn after that, and when leaving the nest, the adult capybara will leave one to take care of its young.

Capybara are social animals, but sometimes they live alone. Generally, the number of individuals in capybara group is between 10 and 20, of which 2 to 4 are adult males, 4 to 7 are adult females and the rest are cubs. In the dry season, the number of capybara individuals will increase, reaching 50 to 100, and will gather near the water source.

The status of males is obviously graded, and the leading capybara is heavier than other individuals, but except for this leading capybara, the grades of other capybara are not differentiated by weight. The leading capybara will be surrounded by other capybara and get the best resources. The hierarchical concept of capybara was formed from childhood.

Capybara are usually very noisy and establish contact with each other through voice communication. When threatened or breast-fed, females bark like dogs. This creature has two different odor glands, which are located near the nose and anus. Both sexes have smelly glands, but men's nasal glands are bigger, anal glands are easier to open, and the hairs on both sides can be separated. They will secrete transparent substances from these glands and apply them to nearby plants. These substances give off a special smell, which can last for a long time and will be recognized by other capybara. In addition, males also use urine to spread their own odors, while females rarely do so. In fact, females generally mark less frequently than males, and they usually mark in the rainy season. In addition, males also mark females.

The gestation period of capybara is 130- 150 days. Generally, capybara will give birth to four or less cubs, and the actual number varies from 1 one to eight. The larvae are born on land. After a few hours, the female capybara will return to the group, and the larvae can join the capybara group after independent activities. Young capybara can eat grass within a week, but they usually breastfeed within 16 weeks, and it is not necessarily their biological mother who breastfeeds. The capybara reaches sexual maturity when it is 65438 0.5 years old and weighs 30-40 kg. The life span of wild capybara is 8- 10 years, but because it is the food source of many carnivores, the average life span is actually less than 4 years.

It is one of the favorite foods of South American green pythons.

Capybara is gentle and can live in peace with almost any animal. The capybara has become a frequent visitor to zoos and parks, and is also the pet of some animal lovers. The life span of capybara can reach 12 years under feeding conditions.

Capybara was once hunted by human beings. Because capybara's fur is soft and waterproof, with little stripes, it is a good fur variety, which can be used to make clothes, purses, belts, leather boots, moccasins and so on.

Although people in some areas think its meat is inedible, some people do regard it as an important source of protein. In the dominant areas of Venezuela, although people should fast during Lent and Holy Week, the local Catholic Church will specifically allow people to eat capybara meat. The fat oil of capybara is considered to have the effect of treating asthma, so capybara is also killed for its fat. Other capybara are hunted by humans because they compete with domestic animals.

However, some places will specialize in keeping capybara to protect the ecology. Nowadays, capybara is raised on a large scale in parts of South America to meet the demand of fur and meat, but wild hunting continues.