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Capybaras, Venezuela, 1976

The capybara, the world's largest rodent, can weigh up to a hundred pounds (45.3 kilograms) and resembles a miniature hippopotamus. Its partially webbed feet help it swim and dive.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Venezuela's Crisis of Wealth," August 1976, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Robert W. Madden

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