You can discover much more about capybaras from this book:
Book 3: "Capybaras Are Special. Discover More About Capybaras"
This book includes the many extremely interesting things I have learnt about capybaras, and includes information that is not available on the Internet or in any research paper.
Chapters include: The Sounds Capybaras Make – Capybaras' Vocalisations, Calls and Barks with links to videos illustrating each different vocalisation. How Capybaras Use Their Excellent Sense of Smell to Understand and Navigate Their World. Capybaras Have Very Expressive Eyes and Faces which is partly what makes them so interesting, and so appealing. The compassionate and empathetic nature of capybaras because they are so sensitive emotionally. Cecotrophy, Why Capybaras Eat Their Cecotropes. Capybara Teeth. Grief. Immerse Yourself in Their Lives. Scientific Research on Capybaras and Rodents. Capybara Scent Marking Behaviour and Its Purpose. Why Capybaras Are Aggressive. How Capybaras Communicate and Know Their Place in the Hierarchy. Capybara Fathers Are the Best Dads. The other species "The Lesser Capybara". The Giant Rodents of North and South America some of whom were larger than a bull! How To Pet a Capybara. More pages of Interesting Information about Capybaras much of which is not found on the Internet
I have just published my book: "My Life with Capybaras. What Capybaras Have Taught Me"
This book will be a joy to everyone who loves capybaras. It is easily the most comprehensive book about capybaras, with lots of photos. And video links.
I think you will love this video:
You Have Never Heard Capybaras Sound like This: Extraordinary Sound of a Capybara Conversation
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Most afternoons at about 4 PM Goemon, a 4-year-old male capybara who was born at Nagasaki Bio Park and is in a separate enclosure to keep him apart from the females, makes the most compelling, frantic calls. These vocalisations include a very shrill component, sometimes followed by a sound that reminds me of the call of the kookaburra. I will be uploading a video before too long, but it is fantastic, a great privilege, to be in his presence when he is making these calls.
Goemon is a very macho male with a huge, glossy morillo. Toku, the breeding male who is not related to the Bio Park herd, is by contrast a much calmer male, highly intelligent and with a soft, gentle look in his eye. Every day if there are no females visiting Goemon he starts "strutting his stuff" – vocalising, doing some eye-catching behaviour such as aggressively playing with a bamboo frond, doing a very stylised version of "the walk" rubbing his anal glands. The call attracts the attention of the females some of whom will always go to visit him. Toku never goes in for such aggressively masculine behaviour. His vocalisations are gentler. He seems just as popular with the females.
Goemon's mother was Aki, Donguri's aggressive sister who was number 1 in the female Bio Park hierarchy in 2012 when I first visited, and his father was Yasushi. Zabon, who still lives with the herd at the Biopark, is his sister. Syu, another male capybara whose mother and father were also Aki and Yasushi, but who was very gentle and affectionate and a great favourite of Donguri, also used to make a similar, but less frantic, call at about the same time each afternoon when he was a-year-old. Syu was 10 months younger than Goemon.
It sounds as if Goemon is communicating with another capybara. Not Toku, but possibly Nina or Io, both males who were born at Nagasaki Bio Park and live alone in separate enclosures. Nina is in the Wood of Squirrel Monkeys, but nobody ever sees him.
For more information on the sounds capybaras make with links to videos where you can hear all the wonderful sounds and vocalisations which capybaras make, and what they may mean
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A pet capybara should I have one?
Capybara facts and information. Everything you wanted to know about capybaras
The Sounds Capybaras Make. Capybara’s Vocalisations, Calls and Barks
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