capivara

As the Brazilians pointed out, they are called capivara in Portugese.

The Fantastical Capybara: An Interview with Melanie Typaldos About Her Caplin Rous 2009

The three are all "rodent" animals, and the capivara is the largest

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

The three are all "rodent" animals, and the capivara is the largest

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

In portuguese his name is “capivara”, very common in many places in Brasil, see in my city.

The Fantastical Capybara: An Interview with Melanie Typaldos About Her Caplin Rous 2009

Sometimes we startled a herd of capivara, resting on the water's edge; and once we saw a sloth, sitting upon the branch of an Imbauba (Cecropia) tree, rolled up in its peculiar attitude, the very picture of indolence, with its head sunk between its arms.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

We now made the acquaintance of the _capivara_ (_Hydrochoerus capibara_),

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

My men were greatly excited in trying to capture a _capivara_ they had wounded.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

The capivara would not have been killed so easily, had he not frightened it from behind; besides, the crocodile was out of his element.

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

It might be an ocelot, or the yaguarundi, or some one of the smaller cats; for many of these prey on the defenceless capivara.

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

Had he been a smaller crocodile he would have been only too glad to have done so; but trusting to his size and strength, and perhaps not a little to the justice of his cause, he was determined not to go without taking the capivara along with him.

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850