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Old Posted Jun 16, 2022, 7:45 PM
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I don't know how nice they are but capybaras look adorable!
The most chill of all the giant rodents:



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Old Posted Jun 16, 2022, 8:16 PM
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Here in Tucson, we have rattle snakes, coyotes and javelina's. I live in a mobile home park in Midtown and they come into the community and knock out the skirting of the trailers and make their homes there. No matter how big they are, they can squeeze their bodies into the shape of a concrete cinder block, it's amazing to see.

I see them, sometimes at night, walking my ferret, and ferret's being fearless, my ferret chases after Javelina's and they run.
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Old Posted Jun 16, 2022, 8:32 PM
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Cool but where is this? Does everyone know but me?
It's São Paulo.


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I don't know how nice they are but capybaras look adorable!
They are, and they are also incredibly friendly. They don't care about humans and other animals. Everybody's friends.
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Capybaras, between the polluted Pinheiros River, a commute railway and a 7-lane freeway:


Fresno California has an invasive species similar to this. But instead of cute, they’re generally scary and disgusting. Called the Nutria. They’re invading Virginia too.

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Like JManc, I feed the wildlife on my property, and provide water. I have bird feeders that attract many types of birds (we're on a migration route) that my cats love to watch.

My cats are indoor-only. One of them has a squirrel buddy who comes to the back door every morning to play hide and seek with my cat. It's hilarious.

I love all kinds of bugs, spiders, bees, etc. There's some kind of wasp looking insect that follows me around the yard when I'm watering. Sometimes there will be a half dozen of them seeking the water, especially as we're in such a dry spell. Early this evening, I had my sprinkler going in the front yard, and a hummingbird kept flying through the drops from the sprinkler, I guess to get a drink. Even though we had two very good rains earlier in the month, the extreme temperatures have dried up everything and I feel sorry for all the wildlife that must be thirsty.
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Capybaras crossing a Urban road somewhere :

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Old Posted Jun 17, 2022, 1:11 PM
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Fresno California has an invasive species similar to this. But instead of cute, they’re generally scary and disgusting. Called the Nutria. They’re invading Virginia too.

Isn't that a beaver? Yeah, capybaras are more good looking.


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Capybaras crossing a Urban road somewhere :
It seems Brazil, but I have no idea which city.

EDIT: I googled in Portuguese and I found it: it's in Cuiabá (950k inh. metro area), Mato Grosso state capital.
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London (Ontario) has:
Coyotes
Deer
Rattlesnakes, plus a bunch of mundane harmless snakes
Opossum
the odd Black Bear
the very odd Cougar
Beavers
Hawks, Great Horned Owls, Barred Owls
Turkeys
European Badgers
Snapping Turtles
Foxes
The usual cast of characters (rodents, amphibians, turtles, many bird species, bats)
10 trillion Canada Geese and Mallard Ducks

kinda boring, I guess, like the city is.
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There's actually reported sitings of Massassauga Rattlesnakes in London? I thought they were pretty much relegated to parts of the Bruce Peninsula and East Georgian Bay.
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London (Ontario) has:
Coyotes
Deer
Rattlesnakes, plus a bunch of mundane harmless snakes
Opossum
the odd Black Bear
the very odd Cougar
Beavers
Hawks, Great Horned Owls, Barred Owls
Turkeys
European Badgers
Snapping Turtles
Foxes
The usual cast of characters (rodents, amphibians, turtles, many bird species, bats)
10 trillion Canada Geese and Mallard Ducks

kinda boring, I guess, like the city is.
Cougars? Thought they were exterminated from Ontario and points east?
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Isn't that a beaver?
No, it's a nutria, a semi-aquatic rodent native to South America, but they were introduced to a variety of other places around the world, including north America, where they are now considered an invasive speices.

Beavers are another semi-aquatic rodent, but in a different family, and unlike the nutria, they are native to north America.
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Cougars? Thought they were exterminated from Ontario and points east?
You can find many a cougar of the other variety hanging around certain bars in Downtown London. I don't know the last time a feline one was spotted south of Muskoka though.
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Beavers are another semi-aquatic rodent, but in a different family, and unlike the nutria, they are native to north America.
Beavers are in my opinion, one of the coolest dam () animals on the planet. I think you can easily argue that no individual from any other species can influence their environment as much as a single beaver can. Sure, a herd of Wildebeest can destroy large swaths of grazing land, or a locust swarm could eat everything in a 2 mile radius, but no one individual could make a change like this.


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A stray cat massaging a capybara in an university campus:

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No, it's a nutria, a semi-aquatic rodent native to South America, but they were introduced to a variety of other places around the world, including north America, where they are now considered an invasive speices.

Beavers are another semi-aquatic rodent, but in a different family, and unlike the nutria, they are native to north America.
Oh yes! It's ratão do banhado ("big rat of swamp" translating freely). It's found on southern Brazil.
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I've seen nutria around here.
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Some more local wildlife:

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Old Posted Jun 17, 2022, 5:27 PM
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There's actually reported sitings of Massassauga Rattlesnakes in London? I thought they were pretty much relegated to parts of the Bruce Peninsula and East Georgian Bay.
Yes. And I found one in my friend's backyard. No doubt.
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Cougars? Thought they were exterminated from Ontario and points east?
https://london.ctvnews.ca/possible-c...-ont-1.5676387

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/...ugar-sightings

they have also been cougar sightings in Quebec and New Brunswick.

https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chr...tour-au-quebec
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People see them all the time here in New York as well, but no evidence save for a few blurry pics and videos. There was one documented true cougar that made its way through lake George to end up getting killed in Connecticut. It has wandered from the Dakota’s apparently. Would be cool if they’re out there - but doubt there’s any sustained breeding population. Yet.
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^I don't think there are any established populations yet. but transients, yes.

The coyote is now very well (Re) established.
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