A friend of mine just sent me this picture and said someone they knew just got a capybara. I informed them that that definitely isn't a capybara. Now neither of us know what it is. It kinda looks like it's in the uncanny valley of the rabbit species. Is it just a fucked up looking rabbit?
Yep. That looks like it. Also called a Cavy Mara so it just looks like a bad game of telephone happened with the name.
And the thing itself looks like a game of telephone between a rabbit and a deer. Cute though. I wonder what they're like as pets. Wikipedia says "near threatened."
Sometimes I forget that wild Cavies are real.
It's a copybara.
What's funny is that "barato" means cheap in Spanish and it's sometimes shorted to "bara" in some places. So a cheap copy.
Happy cake day!
Thanks! :D
That's a Mara. They're the cutest things! And the little babies are even cuter!
Can you pet them?
Maras are pretty flighty, but if they're used to people, yeah
Here's a Mara and baby Mara in Argentina
Jackalope
dog.
Late to the thread, but I now have a new favorite animal(s)
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