Why can’t we have invasive capybara? I’d welcome capybara overlords.
Capybara are too “zen” to bother with the overlord business. 
When you’re the world’s largest rodent, you got nuthin’ to prove.
There’s some capybara in Florida. Not many.
True statement for most states if we do not exclude zoo specimens.
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.
His name was Thibodeaux. Good fella, but he had a weakness for gin…
There’s kayakers in Death Valley if you count all the people who buy flights through kayak.com
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.
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
Lake Manly? I would think the primary water sport there is lumberjacks jousting with sharks.