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It was awesome! One even rolled over on its side to get belly rubs. Definitely would recommend for any animal lovers. :)

https://www.gatorland.com/animals/meet-a-capybara/

Link for anyone interested.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nice! I got to eat one of those once when staying with a native family in the Bolivian Amazon. It was quite nice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Haha! That's what my husband kept talking about when we saw them. In Peru they eat Cuy which is guinea pig. I have never tried it, nor do I really want to but my husband is ready and willing to eat any exotic animal...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They eat guinea pigs too. Roast them on a spit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I mean they just eat off the land, which for them involves hunting the Amazon. They had monkey too, which I politely skipped.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never ate capybara meat, what people often mention about it is that it's strong-tasting and grassy. Plus in my city it feels like as much of a sacrilege as hurting the Paraná pines or the azure jays. Like, I think that you'd get an easier time murdering people than those three.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not in the jungle around rurrenabaque, apparently