These guy i mean- i guess some excaped in your state to?





USA: June 29, 2001




JACKSONVILLE, Fla.- Two capybaras, a large rodent species native to South America not unlike small pigs, are on the run from the Jacksonville Zoological Garden, a zoo spokesman said yesterday.




The juvenile male and female, born at the zoo about 11 months ago, swam through a hole in a chain-link fence that cuts across the pond in the zoo's South America exhibit, spokesman Craig Miller said.
The animals shared the habitat with their parents, two juvenile siblings, rheas, giant anteaters and guanacos, Miller said, adding it was the first time capybaras - who are considered exotic here - had fled the zoo.
The tailless capybara, a plant eater native to the rain forests, swamps and grassy plains of Central and South America, is the world's largest living rodent. It looks like a small pig and grows to the size of a large dog.
It has coarse, light brown hair, a thick head, a long snout, small ears and nose and partially webbed feet. It is raised on farms for its meat, hide and hair.




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