4. Cooperative Parenting Behavior
The way capybara society approaches parenthood is among their most amazing features. Unlike many other rodent species, capybaras exhibit communal nursing of young, whereby several females will feed each other's pups and alternately guard the group's progeny. Beyond simple supervision, this behavior involves adult capybaras actively teaching young ones vital survival skills including swimming methods, predator detection, and food choice. The whole group helps to raise and safeguard the children; even non-parent individuals assume teaching and guardian roles. Young capybaras' survival rate is much raised by this cooperative breeding approach, which also develops group social ties.
