Crossword-Solution: CAPYBARAS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Their common prey is the capybara, so that it is generally said, where capybaras are numerous there is little danger from the jaguar.

Alligators were common on most parts of the coast; in some places we also saw small herds of Capybaras (a large Rodent animal, like a colossal Guinea-pig) amongst the rank herbage on muddy banks, and now and then flocks of the graceful squirrel monkey (Chrysothrix sciureus), whilst the vivacious Caiarára (Cebus albifrons) were seen taking flying leaps from tree to tree.

These enormous cats with spotted robes are so well fed in countries abounding in capybaras, pecaries, and deer, that they rarely attack men.

Other species of the most diverse kinds, in which voice is greatly developed, join in noisy concerts and choruses; many of the cats may be mentioned, also dogs and foxes, capybaras and other loquacious rodents; and in the howling monkeys this kind of performance rises to the sublime uproar of the tropical forest at eventide.

The tall trees covering them are bound together by creeping plants into a thick jungle, the home of capybaras and the lair of the jaguar.