- Capybaras eat floating plants and aquatic
grasses.
- Capybaras young can feed on grasses a
week after birth.
- Capybaras can hold their breath for five
minutes.
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- The tree sloth is an excellent, if slow,
swimmer.
- Tree sloths move so slowly that algae grows
in their fur.
- Tree sloths climb to the ground to poop
because if they go in the trees, the sound will alert predators.
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- A jaguar beats its tail on water to imitate
rubber tree seeds falling, which tricks a fish called the tambaqui to the surface.
the jaguar now has a tasty meal.
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- The silky anteater likes to eat fruit.
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- When porcupines cross rivers, piranhas
sometimes attack them and end up with spines in their stomachs.
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- The manatee is the largest Amazonian animal.
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- A bear called the spectacled bear eats
fruit.
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The pygmy marmoset is the smallest
monkey in the world.
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