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?
(Solved) What is this definitely not capybara?
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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 2y
Patagonian Mara
Fosheze@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
Yep. That looks like it. Also called a Cavy Mara so it just looks like a bad game of telephone happened with the name.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
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."
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 2y
Sometimes I forget that wild Cavies are real.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 31 pts · 2y
It's a copybara.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
What's funny is that "barato" means cheap in Spanish and it's sometimes shorted to "bara" in some places. So a cheap copy.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Happy cake day!
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Thanks! :D
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 2y
That's a Mara. They're the cutest things! And the little babies are even cuter!
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
Can you pet them?
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Maras are pretty flighty, but if they're used to people, yeah
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 2y
Here's a Mara and baby Mara in Argentina
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
li10@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y
dog.
CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Late to the thread, but I now have a new favorite animal(s)