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My First Capybara
I’ve never seen a capybara before, even though I run this blog and they’ve been my favourite animals since I was a kid. But I was travelling through the U.S the other month and tweeted the San Antonio Zoo to ask if they had capybaras. And they did.
I had a very nice conversation with the capybara-keeper. They have one capybara. She’s a loner and not the type to have animals sit on her. She shares a pond with a Tapir frenemy and they don’t seem to get along. She is unfortunately single as there aren’t many male breeding-age capybaras available. I told the keeper about the symbiosis between birds and capybaras in the wild that leads to them being comfortable with various animals sitting on them. She seemed very interested and helped coax the capybara out with lettuce. In a moment of temporary insanity I purchased a large plush capybara from the zoo store as well as a squirrel monkey and sloth.
Here is a gif I made to commemorate the experience.