Why a Capibara Can Sleep Next to a Crocodile without Anything Happening

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Photos of capibaras sunbathing on alligators have been on the net for years. At first glance it seems like an impossible scene, almost a challenge to the laws of nature. A great rodent resting next to a predator with a jaw full of teeth. Then, why that caiman does not eat it. According to zoologist Elizabeth Congdon, an expert in capibaras and professor at Bethune Cookman University in Florida, the normal thing in freedom is to see capibaras and…