Want to know?

• Capybaras are the worlds largest rodent! Their closest relative is the guinea pig!
• Capybaras are semi-acquatic! They can hold their breath underwater for around 5 minutes!
• Capybaras used to be wrongly classified as pigs when discovered by colonizers...
• Capybaras are herbivores! Their name is derivied from the Tupi word "ka'apiûara" which roughly means "grass eater".
• A subspecies is the Lesser Capybara - they are found in one area of the Panama, and are called Lesser because they are slightly smaller and have less chromosomes!
  
  (But I think they're lovely too...)
  
• Capybaras start puberty later (10-12 months in the wild, 15 in captivity) and have longer pregnancies (5 months) than other rodents!
• Male capybaras have a scent gland above their nose called a morillo! Both sexes like to rub theirs on things to mark territory, but it's more pronounced in males


• They have four toes on their front paws, three on their back.
• Capybara fur is described as stiff and wiry.
• Capybaras bark like dogs and can also make chirping noises like guinea pigs! They can make different kinds of sounds depending on what they're communicating.
• Capybaras can run as fast as horses!?!

What's not to like?

• Cute face shape, friendly eyes
• Round and chonky, like a Pokemon evolution of a guinea pig
• Friendly and sociable, especially to other animals
• Is there anything cuter than a baby capybara? No!
• The way they wiggle their ears
• Webbed feeties

You might not like the answer...

NO!
DO NOT BUY A PET CAPYBARA!
The vast majority of people (including me, and probably you) are not suited to take care for a capybara, unless you're rich enough to emulate it's natural habitat (grazing space, a place to swim, another capybara to bond with), and are ok with a 100+ pound guinea pig that will eat your furniture/electronics and shit everywhere!

Capybaras are not a meme animal you can buy for fun like a dog!

"Perfect capybara enclosure"

Hand over that recipe! I'm hungry!

Pãopivara: homemade stuffed bread

• 400 grams of wheat flour
• 250 milliliters of warm milk
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 10 grams of dry yeast
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• A quarter tablespoon of salt
• 1 pinch of nutmeg
• 1 pinch of black pepper
• 1 beaten egg for brushing the dough

• 150 grams of mozzarella
• 150 grams of Blumenal sausage

• 2 beans raw soy sauce
• 100% cocoa powder

• Mix the dry yeast, sugar, warm milk, black pepper and nutmeg, olive oil and just a little of the wheat flour until it binds, to dissolve and activate the yeast.
• Add a little more flour and before incorporating it into the dough, add the salt (it is important that the salt is the last ingredient).
• Mix well until the dough reaches the bread point.
• Let it rest for about 40 minutes, until it doubles in volume.
• While the dough rests, pass the mozzarella and sausage in the shredder
• After rising, it is necessary to knead the dough and open it to model. For stuffing, the open dough cannot be too thin - or the ingredients of the stuffing can "escape" when baking.
• Stuffing can be added to different parts of the capybara's body, including the head.
• After modeling, place in a greased mold and assemble the animal, using cookie cutters wrapped in aluminum as support for the paws and head. To glue each piece, just brush water in the place where they will be placed.
• The eyes are made with raw beans and the expression, designed with a mixture of shoyu and 100% cocoa, for marking. To make the dough shine, smear it with beaten egg before baking or after 10 minutes in the oven.
• The total time to bake is about 40 minutes, with an oven at 180 degrees (varying according to each equipment).

I still want to know more!

Josephoartigasia would have been the REAL world's largest rodent if not extinct - It's roughly 4-5 feet tall, 8 feet long, and over 1000 pounds. It's skull has been identified and measures 1 foot and 9 inches in length. Basically a bull sized rodent! The previous largest identified rodent was the Phoberomys pattersoni.

It lived during the Pilocene to early Pleistocene era in an forested esturine environment. It supposedly mostly ate fruits and soft plants, but it could definately eat more with it's calculated bite force via its huge skull.

Links!

• Capybara Biology free download
• r/Capybara on Reddit
• Capybaras at Nagasaki Bio Park
• Capybara Madness on Youtube
• Capybara World on Youtube and Wordpress
• Capymacho on Youtube
• CapyTube on Youtube
• fuafuacapybara on Youtube
• CapybaraHP on Youtube
• fukuokaasokapi on Youtube
• Capybara NIPPON on Youtube
• ANIMALTOWN KUMA on Youtube
• rmera omiya on Youtube
• Wild Capy on Youtube
• withCapybara on Youtube
• capybara.eek.jp (pages of note: capybara merch collection, also here)
• Kapibarasan
• Various capybara Line stickers
• Capybara VR Chat avatar by Bento ($30)
• Noho-san the capybara V-tuber!
• JoeJoe the capybara (RIP) playlist on Youtube
• Capybara documentary (episode from a children's educational show, not sure which)
• My Crazy Obsession episode with Melanie (owner of Capybara Madness)
• Zoboomafoo episode featuring a capybara on Youtube (the first time I saw one!)
• Capyzoo blog
• Rousphotos on Tumblr
• Dobby the Capybara
• The ROUS Foundation for Capybara Veterinary Medicine
• The Capybara Page
• (Symbollically) Adopt a capybara at the WWF
• Free-to-use capybara emojis and stickers by Freepik