A friend of mine just sent me this picture and said someone they knew just got a capybara. I informed them that that definitely isn’t a capybara. Now neither of us know what it is. It kinda looks like it’s in the uncanny valley of the rabbit species. Is it just a fucked up looking rabbit?

    • @FoshezeOP
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      Yep. That looks like it. Also called a Cavy Mara so it just looks like a bad game of telephone happened with the name.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        163 months ago

        And the thing itself looks like a game of telephone between a rabbit and a deer. Cute though. I wonder what they’re like as pets. Wikipedia says “near threatened.”

    • Lemminary
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      3 months ago

      What’s funny is that “barato” means cheap in Spanish and it’s sometimes shorted to “bara” in some places. So a cheap copy.

  • Ada
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    That’s a Mara. They’re the cutest things! And the little babies are even cuter!

  • Ada
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    3 months ago

    Here’s a Mara and baby Mara in Argentina

  • @CheeryLBottom
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    12 months ago

    Late to the thread, but I now have a new favorite animal(s)