Originally published at: I met the world's perfect mammal at a reptile sanctuary | Boing Boing
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… and you can legally touch them, if you’re prepared to pay out the extra cash for a “capybara experience”. Just leave them be when they’re playing piggyback.
I remember meeting one at the Pittsburgh Zoo’s Children’s Zoo long ago.
Definitely prickly. Also ridiculously affectionate. There were scritches, and they were very much leaned into.
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Nobody was concerned about legal when the capybara was wandering around under necking couples at my senior prom. We were more concerned about peacock poop on gowns and tuxes.
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I’m choosing this single occasion to make an exception to my policy of not posting photos of my family on the Internets, because:
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