# Identify this rodent **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 8, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526 "2018-07-08T17:18:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/41 "2018-07-12T14:30:35Z")
Why can’t we have invasive capybara? I’d welcome capybara overlords. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/42 "2018-07-12T16:20:27Z")
Capybara are too “zen” to bother with the overlord business. 😉 When you’re the world’s largest rodent, you got nuthin’ to prove. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/43 "2018-07-12T19:08:34Z")
There’s some capybara in Florida. Not many. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/44 "2018-07-12T19:55:53Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > There’s some capybara in Florida. Not many. True statement for most states if we do not exclude zoo specimens. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/45 "2018-07-12T22:02:25Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Why can’t we have invasive capybara? I’d welcome capybara overlords. They are slowly spreading northwards through Panama. They should be in Texas within a century of so. And back during the Pleistocene, a Giant Capybara lived in the southern US. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/46 "2018-07-12T23:40:32Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > And back during the Pleistocene, a Giant Capybara lived in the southern US. His name was Thibodeaux. Good fella, but he had a weakness for gin… ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/47 "2018-07-12T23:48:41Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > True statement for most states if we do not exclude zoo specimens. There’s kayakers in Death Valley if you count all the people who buy flights through [kayak.com](http://kayak.com) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/48 "2018-07-13T00:06:03Z")
There’s a bunch of them that hang out in Portland at the Eastmoreland Golf Course, mostly around the pond by the 17th hole. I enjoyed taking my never-seen-one-in-his-life brother there and waiting for him to notice them when he was on the tee. He did. I pretended not to see them. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/49 "2018-07-13T00:36:29Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > There’s kayakers in Death Valley if you count all the people who buy flights through [kayak.com](http://kayak.com) You can kayak in Death Valley if you time it right. In a really wet year Lake Manly gets just deep enough to paddle around a bit: [Kayak on Lake Manly](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kayak_on_Lake_Manly.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526/50 "2018-07-13T01:08:35Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > You can kayak in Death Valley if you time it right. In a really wet year Lake Manly gets just deep enough to paddle around a bit: [Kayak on Lake Manly](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kayak_on_Lake_Manly.jpg) Lake Manly? I would think the primary water sport there is lumberjacks jousting with sharks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-rodent/817526.md?page=2)