Blogs

Prehistoric Giant Rodents

October 30, 2009
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Capybaras in the News

Humans are always so gung-ho about their prehistoric ancestors. Did they origniate in Africa? When did the walk on two legs? When did they get agriculture? Well all that is boring by comparison to my giant rodent ancestors! I found this great post about them on a blog call The World We Don’t Live In

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Me & My Owner Immortalized

October 28, 2009
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Capybara Art

If a picture paints a 1000 words then a painting is worth a million words. Or something like that. Anyway, the painting that Grace Warrington did of me and my owner is worth at least a million words. More like a million dollars. More like priceless. Look what a great job she did of catching [&hellip

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Buffalo NY Zoo Has Three Baby Capybaras

October 27, 2009
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Capybaras in the News, World Capys

The zoo in Buffalo NY, USA, has three new baby capybaras!We’re always cute but we’re never cuter than when we’re babies. If you live in the Buffalo area, make sure you go visit these little guys as soon as you can. Babies always grow up too fast.

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Professor Rous

October 18, 2009
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Caplin's Blog, School Visits

Not a week goes by where something exciting doesn’t happen to me. You might think it is exhausting (I believe this is my owner’s opinion), but I love it! Last week was an especially big one for me. You’ll recall that my Russian stalker, Rezoner, visited. Well, Rezoner wrote a (hopefully) nice post a

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San Antonio Zoo Capybaras

October 14, 2009
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World Capys

Do you remember when I adopted a capybara at the San Antonio Zoo? Well, my owner finally got a chance to use the two free tickets and go down to meet my adopted cousins. The zoo people told us there were four capys but my owner (who was with my Russian stalker, aka Rezoner, aka […]

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What a Weekend!

October 11, 2009
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Caplin's Blog

Did anyone ever tell you never to meet someone you know from the internet in person? Gosh, I blew that warning to shreds this weekend! Do you see that photo above? That is me sitting on the couch with my friend Alex, aka Rezoner. Rezoner and I “met” when I was just a baby ‘bara […

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Ten, Count Them, Ten! Baby Capybaras!

October 6, 2009
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Melly's Blog, World Capys

(Owner’s post) Last weekend I had the chance to visit a local capybara owner who had two capys give birth on the same day. The ten babies were just five days old when I visited and it’s hard to imagine anything cuter. I just have to share the photos with all of Caplin’s fans. These […]

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Capybara Creek

October 4, 2009
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Caplin's Blog

I guess everyone knows that my humans, co-pets and I live out in “the country.” Well, my owner says it’s not so much the country now as it was when she first moved here but I don’t remember any of that. I’m only a little over two years old so I guess I am too […]

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