(n.) A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study we describe the adult parasites and the microfilaria of the "Cruorifilaria tuberocauda" (Nematoda, Filarioidea), Eberhard, Morales & Orihel (1976) obtained from the arteries of the kidney of two capybaras from Apure and Barinas states of Venezuela.
(2) The accessory olfactory formation among mammals also exhibits variation in the compactness of the large perikarya: a broadband in most but a compact layer in a few others such as the chinchilla and the capybara.
(3) Somatic sensory, auditory and visual areas of cerebral neocortex were mapped in anesthetized capybaras using surface macroelectrode-evoked potential recording methods.
(4) Infection without neoplastic transformation also was obtained in pigs, rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees, and rabbits, and was observed in capybaras and water buffaloes.
(5) In this study we describe briefly the adult parasites and, the microfilaria of the species "Dipetalonema (Alafilaria) hydrochoerus" which were isolated from skin nips and we have found that the capybara "Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris" is parasitized in a proportion of 80% in the 16 animals studied.
(6) With silhouetted palms at sunset, capybaras bathing in streams, vivid birdlife and viscachas (a type of chinchilla) snuffling around the site at dusk, it’s a photographers’ paradise.
(7) The response of the chymotrypsins was more variable and those of capybara and rabbit showed extreme sensitivity.
(8) from the capybara Hydrochaerus hydrochaerus in South America; Frenkelia sp.
(9) Infection without neoplastic transformation was also obtained in pigs, rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees, rabbits and observed in capybaras and water-buffaloes.
(10) The representation of the perioral skin in SI cortex was relatively large in capybaras and guinea pigs.
(11) Even though a severe tissue response is seen in the walls of the blood vessels occupied by the adult worms, it appears to be a common parasite in the population of capybaras surveyed.
(12) In 2009, a staffer was suspended for two days without pay after a capybara – the world’s largest rodent – was crushed to death in a hydraulic door , while in 2007 a six-year-old hippo died less than 24 hours after being transferred from the Denver Zoo as part of an international breeding program.
(13) Phil Harrison spoke about Microsoft's record with independent games, but then showed just two of note: Minecraft , which hardly counts any more due to its profound global success, and the intriguing Below , a new "roguelike" RPG hackathon from Sword and Sworcery developer Capybara.
(14) Infection without neoplastic transformation has also been demonstrated in pigs, rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees and rabbits and observed in capybaras and water buffaloes.
(15) On the bank was a family of capybaras, the world's largest rodent, dog-sized and shaggy-haired, with a funny rectangular-shaped head.
(16) Trypanosoma evansi was seen in blood samples taken randomly from both wild and semi-captive capybaras caught in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil and in sick dogs brought into local veterinary clinics.
(17) Rumen ophryoscolecid protozoa were observed in feces obtained from two capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) housed at the Columbus Zoo, Columbus, Ohio.
(18) Four filariae are known to parasitize the capybara "Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris" namely the "Cruorifilaria tuberocauda", Eberhard, Morales & Orihel, 1976; the "Dipetalonema (Alafilaria) hydrochoerus", Yates & Jorgenson, 1983, and "Mansonella longicapita" and "Mansonella rotundicapita [corrected]", Eberhard, Campo-Aasen & Orihel, 1983.
(19) Species affected included a range of primates and birds, a rodent (Capybara) and a carnivore (Caracal Lynx).
(20) On the way we spotted an armadillo, peccaries, a tarantula, more capybaras and tall, flightless rheas.
Coypu
Definition:
(n.) A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results obtained in experiments with natural mating revealed that the extirpation of male coypu seminal vesicles did not affect their fertility.
(2) In spite of a large number of amino acid substitutions (relative to mammalian insulins), computer-graphics model-building studies suggest a similar spatial arrangement for coypu insulin to that for pig insulin.
(3) This appears to be the first report of the isolation of leptospira from a coypu in Great Britain.
(4) There was no cross reaction between guinea pig PBP and PBP of other pregnant hystricomorphs (viscacha, degu, and coypu).
(5) Twenty-nine coypu were trapped and examined by serological, histological and cultural methods.
(6) Minimal thermal conductance was 0.10 W.kg-1.degree C-1 in air for Ta between -10 and +20 degrees C, and conductance varied in water from 0.24 to 1.18 W.kg-1.degrees C-1 for Ta between 5 and 35 degrees C. The physiological adaptations to cold and particularly the high insulative value of the fur (80-90% of the insulation) help to explain the successful extension of the coypu's range to temperate regions.
(7) Coypu pancreas contains one carbohydrate-containing ribonuclease component.
(8) In total 47 foetuses were found post mortem in ten coypu females covered by surgically treated males, which on average represented 4.7 foetuses per female.
(9) The occurrence of the papillomatous disease of the coypu having a contagious character was recorded for the first time in Czechoslovakia in 1975.
(10) Compositions of the carbohydrate moieties of ribonucleases from cow, sheep, pig, whales, giraffe, okapi, moose, horse, coypu, chinchilla, and guinea-pig are presented.
(11) The receptor-binding affinity is significantly higher (5-8%) in rat fat-cells, in rat liver plasma membranes and in pig liver cells, indicating that the efficacy of coypu insulin on receptors is about 2-fold lower than that of pig insulin.
(12) Pancreatic ribonucleases from the hystricomorph rodent species: coypu and chinchilla were isolated using chromatography on carboxymethyl-cellulose.
(13) 89 streptococci strains originated from pigs, 40 strains from horses, 13 from cattle, 12 from dogs, 9 from poultry and 8 from coypu.
(14) In addition, studies in vitro show that DB3 can effectively bind to progesterone carried by high-affinity progesterone-binding protein purified from coypu plasma.
(15) This suggested that New World monkeys, like the New World hystricomorph rodents such as the guinea pig and the coypu, might have insulins whose sequences differ markedly from those of Old World mammals.
(16) Insulin from a hystricomorph rodent, coypu (Myocaster coypus), was isolated and purified to near homogeneity.
(17) The days of the South American coypu in Italy and northern Spain could also be numbered.
(18) These observations have verified in other ruminant species, as the moufflon and the buffalo, the validity of the above-named datum and have ascertained that it is always inconstant in the other animal species considered (wild boar, coypu).
(19) Based on the amino acid composition of globin, amino acid analysis and N-terminal sequencing of peptides as well as a comparative analysis of the primary structure of beaver, coypu rat and otter myoglobins with the use of the fingerprinting technique, the amino acid sequence of the major component of ondatra myoglobin including 153 amino acid residues was reconstructed.
(20) The following order of animal sera was defined in comparison to human sera: cattle, pigeon, duck, sheep, cat, turkey, swine, coypu, hen, dog.