{"id":95122,"date":"2025-08-25T05:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95122\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:32:16","slug":"the-worlds-chillest-most-laid-back-rodent-these-8-photos-reveal-why-capybaras-are-the-most-easy-going-animals-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95122\/","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s chillest, most laid back rodent? These 8 photos reveal why capybaras are the most easy-going animals alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you weren\u2019t aware of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/capybaras-facts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">capybaras<\/a> before, the thrilling story of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/the-largest-rodent-in-the-world-which-is-the-size-of-a-pig-is-loose-in-the-uk-after-escaping-from-a-zoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">capybara named Cinnamon who escaped the zoo<\/a> in 2024 will have inevitably caught your eye. She made her hasty getaway from Hoo Zoo in Telford when the gates to her enclosure were left open for grass cutting \u2013 and her story captured the public\u2019s hearts and minds. People who had never heard of a capybara were suddenly finding themselves deep down a Wikipedia hole \u2013 and some of them ended up here\u2026 welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Capybaras are the largest rodents in the world and spend a great deal of time in water. But they\u2019re not necessarily always cute: they also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/animals-eat-own-poop-coprophagy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eat their own faeces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But mostly, they\u2019re a charming delight, which we\u2019ve captured here in this adorable photo gallery of everyone\u2019s favourite rodent: the capybara.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1969\" height=\"1522\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/capybara_8.jpg\" alt=\"A capybara with its baby\" class=\"wp-image-138728\"\/>A capybara with its baby. Female capybaras are fertile all year round, but there is usually a peak of births around the end of the wet season (credit: Getty Images)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2119\" height=\"1415\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/capybara_1.jpg\" alt=\"Adult female capybara, hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, largest living rodent, native to South America, walking with its litter of four pups in the wild, in El Palmar National Park, Entre Rios, Argentina.\" class=\"wp-image-138721\"\/>Adult female capybara with its litter of four pups in El Palmar National Park, Entre Rios, Argentina. Capybaras have the longest gestation period of all rodents \u2013\u00a0five months. They then have an average of four pups per litter (credit: Getty Images)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/capybara_2.jpg\" alt=\"A capybara male and female (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) swimming across the river with small pups, Mato Grosso, Pantanal, Brazil.\" class=\"wp-image-138722\"\/>A capybara male and female swimming with pups in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Capybaras are semi-aquatic, and are well adapted for life in the water, with partially webbed feet. They can stay underwater for up to five minutes (credit: Getty Images)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/capybara_5.jpg\" alt=\"A group of capybara pups with an adult capybara\" class=\"wp-image-138725\"\/>Capybara mother with cubs on the river bank at Rio Cuiaba, Brazil. Capybaras use water as a shelter from the heat \u2013\u00a0and as a place to escape from land predators (credit: Getty Images)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2100\" height=\"1428\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/capybara_7.jpg\" alt=\"Capybara and a bird\" class=\"wp-image-138727\"\/>Capybaras are not only social with others of their kind \u2013\u00a0they&#8217;re also highly accepting of other species. It&#8217;s common to see capybaras with birds perching on their backs. In many instances, the birds are eating ticks and other parasites off the capybara&#8217;s skin (credit: Getty Images)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/capybara_6.jpg\" alt=\"Capybara shows its teeth\" class=\"wp-image-138726\"\/>A capybara displays its teeth during a yawn in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Their teeth are typical of a rodent, with two large incisors that grow continuously (credit: Getty Images)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2123\" height=\"1411\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/capybara_4.jpg\" alt=\"Cattle Tyrant Perching on a Capybara\" class=\"wp-image-138724\"\/>A cattle tyrant perching on a capybara. It&#8217;s likely the bird will be looking for insects, which will have been caught on the rodent as it moves through the vegetation (credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/capybara_3.jpg\" alt=\"Two capybaras enter the water, one with a bird on its back \" class=\"wp-image-138723\"\/>Capybaras enter the water to mate (with a bird going along for the ride), Mato Grosso, Pantanal, Brazil. Capybaras mate exclusively in water. As semi-aquatic rodents, they even sleep in the water with their nose in the air (credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Due to their enormous stature, we named the capybara as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/weirdest-rodents\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weirdest rodents in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you weren\u2019t aware of capybaras before, the thrilling story of the capybara named Cinnamon who escaped the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-95122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}