We (ok, I) have long been fascinated with extremes. The biggest, smallest, fastest, rarest, highest – if the word ends in “est” I’m there. You can imagine my juvenile glee when I saw my very first capybara at the Honolulu Zoo. A rodent the size of a medium sized dog, the capybara positively *lumbers* its way across the savannah. Rodents should dart or scurry, not lumber. I mean this thing looks like it has *hooves* for feet. My research says the largest capybara captured weighed in at just over 200 pounds, which means either my earlier “medium sized dog” comparison was laughably inadequate, or capybara molecules are composed entirely of lead. I have also not ruled out the possibility that the capybara is an alien lifeform, but even then I’ll bet it’s the biggest rodent on Mars.
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