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Water pig

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Wa´ter pig`
1.(Zool.) The capybara.
2.(Zool.) The gourami.


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Komodo dragons, red pandas, four gibbons and another four critically endangered Visayan water pigs have also swelled the numbers this year.
A young Capybara water pig (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is seen here with its mother in a zoo in Zurich, Switzerland.
Also called a water pig - resembling a beaver without a tail - the capybara lumbers awkwardly on land but can swim long distances and stay underwater up to five minutes, according to animal officials and Web sites.
 
 
 
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