Capybaras: The Great Pigs In The World

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You are on a hike in the jungles of South America, and all of the sudden you see a huge enormous guinea pig, that could probably eat your guinea for a snack! You wonder what kind of crazy science experiment this thing is, or what if they took all the guinea pigs in the world and shoved it down that guinea pig’s throat. Or if you are just mentally unstable! No, you are not mentally unstable, they are called capybaras, and they are the largest rodents in the world.
The capybara is the largest rodent rodent in the world, and weighs just as much as humans do! A capybara can be different colors such as dark brown, reddish and yellowish brown, occasionally with black on it’s face, legs, and on their butts’. A capybara can swim with only their nostrils,

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