EditorialMyopotamus coypus, Print, The coypu, also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent. Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Myocastor is actually nested within Echimyidae, the family of the spi...
EditorialHydrochoerus capybara, Print, The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a mammal native to South America. It is the largest living rodent in the world. Also called chig?ire, chig?iro (in Colombia and Venezuela) and carpincho, it is a member of the ge...
EditorialHydrochoerus capybara, Print, The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a mammal native to South America. It is the largest living rodent in the world. Also called chig?ire, chig?iro (in Colombia and Venezuela) and carpincho, it is a member of the ge...
EditorialHydrochoerus capybara, Print, The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a mammal native to South America. It is the largest living rodent in the world. Also called chig?ire, chig?iro (in Colombia and Venezuela) and carpincho, it is a member of the ge...
EditorialMyopotamus coypus, Print, The coypu, also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent. Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Myocastor is actually nested within Echimyidae, the family of the spi...
EditorialHydrochoerus capybara, Print, The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a mammal native to South America. It is the largest living rodent in the world. Also called chig?ire, chig?iro (in Colombia and Venezuela) and carpincho, it is a member of the ge...
EditorialHydrochoerus capybara, Print, The capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a mammal native to South America. It is the largest living rodent in the world. Also called chig?ire, chig?iro (in Colombia and Venezuela) and carpincho, it is a member of the ge...
EditorialCoypu or river rat, Myocastor coypu (Coypou, Hydromys coupus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1825.
EditorialCoypu or river rat, Myocastor coypus, and Cayenne spiny rat, Proechimys guyannensis. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved...