Capybara facts: the largest living rodents | Animal Fact Files

On this episode of Animal Fact Files discover the largest rodents living on our planet today! They're like giant guinea pigs!! Also apparently I can't decide how to pronounce their name, so you're getting a range of options! =P You can learn more on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/animalfactfiles Facebook - https://facebook.com/animalfactfiles/ --- We always do what we can to be as accurate as possible, but we're only human; if you catch a mistake please let us know and provide a link for verification! --- All images, videos and sound effects used herein are 1) public domain, 2) used under a Creative Commons license*, 3) used with the express permission of the copyright holder, or 4) used under the parameters of Fair Use law. Credits via Youtube: Oak Creek Zoological Conservatory - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiPeIWTJ5Tw; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-_yYKmMszM TheLmpo Radek - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0C3yZ_OU6g; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ko0h01ZVew; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddec_4erYuc Cameron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72eAiguiEps Daniel Baumgartner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CD5rrU3j1I Pawel Was - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18fUdrdfe-k Alessandra Rodrigues Moreira - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ4UBoT_Hp8 Credits via Flickr: Bernard DUPONT - https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/28216028954 Credits via Wiki Users: Nesnad / Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capybara_Ueno_Zoo_2009.ogv WolfmanSF/Bradypus - http://www.onlineghibli.com/tavern/print.php?threadid=2797&boardid=4&styleid=1&sid=3c513d57acb&page=1 Other attributions: reinsamba - https://freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/259095/ Websites used for research collection: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Hydrochoerus_hydrochaeris/ https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/capybara https://books.google.com/books?id=4aHLBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA721 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4855?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01568.x https://www.jwildlifedis.org/doi/abs/10.7589/0090-3558-12.4.572 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01853.x https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1984.tb05087.x https://animres.edpsciences.org/articles/animres/abs/2006/02/z205021/z205021.html https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajas/article/view/139497 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1987.tb03150.x http://www.etologiabrasil.org.br/media/upload/publicacoes_revista/vol2_1_17.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159199000805 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0101-81752005000300031&script=sci_arttext https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01650529409360912 https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/root-crown *you can find information about all the different types of CC licenses here: https://creativecommons.org/ **changes were made to the original Transcript: alugha Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/AnimalFactFiles

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