A baby Capybara and it's mother at Paignton Zoo in Devon.

A baby Capybara and it's mother at Paignton Zoo in Devon. Stock Photo
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SWNS / Alamy Stock Photo

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DMB2BC

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25.1 MB (874.3 KB Compressed download)

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3800 x 2312 px | 32.2 x 19.6 cm | 12.7 x 7.7 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

29 May 2013

Location:

Paignton, Devon, England, UK

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A baby Capybara plays in a tin pot alongside its mother at the Paignton Zoo in Devon, May 29 2013. Paignton Zoo Environmental Park has welcomed a crop of early summer babies. A capybara was born on 15th May, and the zoo has also welcomed a Brazilian tapir , a lechwe and a Bornean orang utan. The Capybara, from South America, is the largest rodent in the world, sometimes known as the giant guinea pig. The capybara is not a threatened species, though it is hunted for its meat and hide and also for a grease from its thick fatty skin which is used in the pharmaceutical trade.