Capybaras are the largest of the rodent species. Weighing as much as a man, these oversized, pig-like animals are highly adapted to an aquatic lifestyle and even mate in the water. Capybaras are found over much of South America. Efficient grazers, they are able to crop even the short, dry grasses left at the end of the dry season.
Quick Answer. As of August 2014, there are five books in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice, the book series on which the Game of Thrones television series is based. Martin has said that he plans to write seven books in total.
The 10 Awful Truths About Book Publishing. 1  The number of books being published in the U.S. has exploded. Bowker reports that over one million (1,052,803) books were published in the U.S. in 2009, which is more than triple the number of books published four years earlier (2005) in the U.S. (April 14, 2010 Bowker Report).