We need to talk about the capybara

Said to be the most good-natured, friendly, and chilled-out creatures in the animal kingdom: it's time we talked about them.

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@fmf said
Said to be the most good-natured, friendly, and chilled-out creatures in the animal kingdom: it's time we talked about them.

@a-unique-nickname said
2008 in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. I'm sitting having lunch overlooking the edge of the jungle and this giant rat thing walks past. Had never seen or heard of a capybara until that moment... they might be friendly but would you approach a giant rodent in the wild?

@a-unique-nickname said
2008 in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. I'm sitting having lunch overlooking the edge of the jungle and this giant rat thing walks past. Had never seen or heard of a capybara until that moment... they might be friendly but would you approach a giant rodent in the wild?

@yo-its-me said
rodent is such a negative term.

@yo-its-me said
rodent is such a negative term.

@a-unique-nickname said
Why?

Aren't rats, hamsters the like all rodents by definition?

I've smoked Trev33 and his dark ideology about capybaras out into the open.

@fmf said
I've smoked Trev33 and his dark ideology about capybaras out into the open.

@fmf said
Using it as a sweeping smear feels like it's a kind of anti-mammal identity politics.

@suzianne said
Smear?

The capybara is the largest extant rodent in the world.

Fact is fact, but you only see insult.

"And so it goes."

@suzianne said
Smear?

The capybara is the largest extant rodent in the world.

Fact is fact, but you only see insult.

"And so it goes."

@indonesia-phil said
It was yo its me who introduced the idea of 'rodent' being a negative term, FMF in reply was merely defending the genera from such indiscriminate negativity.

@fmf said
I've smoked Trev33 and his dark ideology about capybaras out into the open.