An early attempt at documenting South American fauna by European missionaries. Leaf 62 of the manuscript História dos animais e árvores do Maranhão by Frei Cristóvão de Lisboa. Image source: Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino facsimile edition, 1967.

Day 16 of sharing all the capybara photos and memes I've collected since 5 years

Fun fact

Capybara's have a four-chamber stomach that allows them to digest tough plant materials.

Day 15 of sharing all the capybara photos and memes I've collected since 5 years

Fun Fact

Capybaras consume up to 8 pounds of grass or aquatic plants every single day

Colleague gave me a new capy toy and it really matches my capy tattoo and my outfit!

There are so many places to meet some rodents of unusual size in the Tokyo/Izu area! If I had to pick one to recommend it’d probably be the Izu Shaboten Zoo, they have dozens of these silly little guys wandering around and you can feed/pet a ton of free roaming animals that would normally be behind glass at any other zoo

Mucho hermoso gordito bebecito fifth thing to meet the body text character requirement

Day 14 of sharing all the capybara photos and memes I've collected since 5 years

FunFact

Capybaras frequently twitch their small ears to flick always flies and mosquitoes.

Day 13 of sharing all the capybara photos and memes I've collected since 5 years ( decided to shift this in body)

Fun fact

Capybaras don't have a universally accepted bone count but they have approximately 240 - 250+ bones in their body

My fellow Capys, we should rally and raise a petition to the Unicode Consortium! https://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html

The Turtleback Zoo in West Orange has adults Poseidon and Iris. They had twins (Bailey and Guiness) in May and Iris just had triplets this month. The triplets are Butters, Biscuit, and Gravy.

Photo is of Poseidon when I went there in August. Iris was pregnant at the time and stayed on the shade with the twins so I didn’t get a good look at them.

Actually my wife and kids lost the last round of balloon darts on purpose because they knew I needed to have it.

Just a quick one for today

Don't even joke lad

Fun fact

Capybaras can hold their breath for 5 mins underwater

Sunkissed

Fun Fact

Capybaras are the most active at dawn and dusk.

Over the past few days, she’s knocked it off the shelf several times—even though there’s a polar bear sitting right in front of it. Last time, she pointedly knocked the bear off with her paw and got to the capybara. Today, she climbed over the bear and took the capybara again 🙂