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What is the capybara's diet?

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At first, a baby capybara eats only milk, as do all baby mammals. After it is only about a week old, it begins to eat grass, but continues to suckle as well (from any female in its group) until it is weaned at about 16 weeks old. It then fully adopts the adults' diet of grasses, aquatic plants, fruits, and tree bark.

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They are herbivores. They feed on grass, aquatic plants and fruits. They forage for most of the day and consume 6 to 8 pounds of grass and plants every day. Finding food and saving itself from predators takes up bulk of its time everyday.

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fruit branches and a wide selection of vegertion and are strict vegertarions

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well for one thing, the only types of a capybaras are the common capybara and the lesser capybara. they both are grazers and eat grass

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They are herbivores. They feed on grass, aquatic plants and fruits.

They are the prey for predators like Jaguars, Alligators and Anaconda's. Anaconda's favorite prey is the Capybara

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They eat bamboo and leaves.

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