Capybara

- Capybara in southern Arizona??!!  Yep!!  OK, OK, so they live at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson and the Ghost Ranch Exotics in Marana ... Still, they're here!!
- The capybara or greater capybara is the largest living rodent, native to South America
- Member of the genus Hydrochoerus ... the only other extant member is the lesser capybara
- Its close relatives include guinea pigs and rock cavies, and it is more distantly related to the agouti, the chinchilla, and the nutria