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The Capybara: The Calmest Character in the RaccoonVerse
Completely unbothered, with an orange balanced on its head.
The real animal
The capybara is the largest rodent in the world. It lives in grasslands, wetlands and along rivers across much of South America, spends a lot of time in water and lives in social groups. It is also famous for its calm: birds, monkeys and other animals are often photographed sitting on capybaras, and the capybara rarely seems to mind.
In Japan, several zoos give their capybaras warm baths in winter, sometimes with yuzu citrus floating in the water. The tradition began in the 1980s and turned the capybara hot spring into a small internet genre of its own.
In the RaccoonVerse
The Capybara keeps a small orange balanced on its head and has never once been surprised. It soaks with the Raccoon in a snowy hot spring full of oranges, roasts marshmallows beside him over a dumpster fire as if everything were on schedule, and is already at the beach while he crosses days off his retirement calendar.
If you know someone who stays calm in every crisis, or someone who should, a capybara shirt is the right gift.
