Capybara: Animal Science Quest

Question 1 · multiple choice

A habitat sign describes the home of a Capybara. Which description belongs on it?

marshes, riverbanks, flooded grasslands, and lakesides tropical vegetation and cultivated foliage grasslands, farmland, scrub, and wetlands near palms or thorny trees humid forest vegetation beside tropical streams

Question 2 · multiple choice

What food choice best fits the teeth, bill, or feeding tools of a Capybara?

fish, crustaceans, amphibians, and small animals grasses and aquatic plants insects and other small animals mostly small mammals located by sound

Question 3 · multiple choice

Which daily routine is most typical for a Capybara?

forages by day or night depending on light and prey active by day feeds in cooler hours and rests near or in water during heat usually active by day

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which action sequence best matches a moving Capybara?

flies through water with flipper-like wings and toboggans over ice climbs slowly with gripping feet and a coiling tail swims slowly using pectoral, dorsal, and anal fins for fine control walks on land and swims with partly webbed feet

Question 5 · multiple choice

A close observation reveals one feature especially suited to a Capybara. Which is it?

eyes, ears, and nostrils sit high on the head for watching while mostly submerged nostrils near the bill tip detect prey by smell and touch a prehensile tail anchors the body while camouflage hides it mantle tissues house algae that photosynthesise and share nutrients

Question 6 · multiple choice

What is the best description of a young Capybara's start in life?

the female builds a domed nest and raises one chick young are born well developed and can follow the group quickly long strings of eggs are laid in still or slow water females carry eggs beneath the abdomen until larvae hatch

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which social arrangement fits a Capybara rather than the distractors?

colonies contain reproductive adults, workers, and soldiers groups may herd fish into shallows before scooping them lives in social groups with a dominant male and several females adults may gather at good basking and nesting sites

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which cause-and-effect chain correctly starts with a Capybara's normal behaviour?

controls aquatic prey in oxygen-poor floodplain habitats controls many insects and feeds birds, reptiles, and spiders controls rodent populations around farms and grasslands grazes wetland plants and provides prey for large predators

Question 9 · multiple choice

A researcher keeps a safe distance because a Capybara may do what when cornered?

dives into water and gives alarm barks freezes, sways, drops, and can regrow a lost leg while young places nests over water or thorny branches to reduce access by predators green camouflage and stillness hide it on leaves

Question 10 · true false

True or False: A capybara is the largest living rodent.

True False