Word: capybaras
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...Sloths are a common sight in parks and on hillside trails, and marmoset monkeys scamper along telephone lines and swing through the trees of several neighborhoods. Armadillos, hawks and skunks often invade homes, while firefighters are called to remove caimans from back gardens and swimming pools. A capybara has even startled bathers by appearing on Ipanema Beach...
...easy and intended for a general audience or too “weird” for him to know. “They asked what the largest rodent in the world was,” he said, admitting that he had not known that the correct answer is a capybara. Vaz said that his youth might have been one factor that made him appealing to the show’s producers, He competed in the first round in September 2005, winning three games but losing in the fourth. He called himself “near the borderline?...
...stage has ever been so densely populated with wacky misfits as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The off-Broadway musical, a sleeper hit that is moving to Broadway next month, charts the angst of six nerdy and needy young people as they wrestle down words like capybara and omphaloskepsis in their efforts to win a trip to the national spelling finals. Coming on the heels of the documentary Spellbound (which Disney wants to make into a musical too), it's an utterly charming look at one of the screwier manifestations of the American Dream...
...Pantanal, the rivers that feed into its marshes are being polluted by gold mining, deforestation and agriculture. To feed cattle herds, some ranchers are planting exotic grasses that threaten the delicate balance of the ecosystem. Wild-animal dealers are going after such items as rare birds and capybara skins. But De Barros believes the problems will be kept under control. He stresses that the Pantaneiros have traditionally respected the area's riches, and they are beginning to realize that their home has great potential for ecotourism...
...pota toes or runner beans, grown a sunflower or tasted a cultivated strawberry. The imagined landscapes were either writhing with fearsome organic life or else stupendous and desolate. When Frans Post, a traveling 17th century artist, painted a view of the Sao Francisco River in Bra zil, a lone capybara by a cactus tree took on the ruminative air of a Caspar Da vid Friedrich monk, contemplating the infinite. "What a fabulous and extravagant country we're in!" exclaimed the great naturalist Von Humbolt...