The world's largest living rodent, a semi-aquatic mammal native to South America that weighs up to 150 pounds.
From Portuguese capibara, derived from the Tupi language of Brazil (ka'apiûara), where 'ka'api' means 'grass' and 'ara' means 'eater,' literally 'grass eater.' The word entered English through Portuguese colonial sources.
Capybaras are famously chill animals that get along with almost every other animal—jaguars, anacondas, birds all hang out with them, which is why they've become memes as the 'friend group animal'!
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