John came up, and on examining the animal's mouth, we found it to be a rodent, and thus knew it to be a capybara, the largest of its order.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston
In like manner, in the Pampas of South America the skeletons of Megatherium, Megalonyx, Glyptodon, Mylodon, Toxodon, Macrauchenia, and other extinct forms, are analogous to the living sloth, armadillo, cavy, capybara, and llama.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
We did not forget the old capybara and the young ones.
"The Three Lieutenants"
W.H.G. Kingston