Here's the now famous Diega, in the process of consuming a juvenile capybara, that gave her this injury when she first grabbed it. This is the #1 reason why pregnant females rarely eat.
The worst/best part? The capybara was a research subject of my roommate who was studying capybaras for her PhD...the poor animal had just been released after being caught, measured, and tagged. It ran off, and within seconds...bam. We named it Diega, after the other capybara researcher present, whose name is Diego...who we left muttering, "Yo ODIO las anacandas..." (I HATE anacondas.) (It was an incredibly cute animal...)
2 weeks later, we caught Diega, put her in an oil drum, and waited til she defecated to get the specimen and record it, as usual. We gathered up the poop sample, including a little fur, and one little green ear tag - in a jar and presented it to our roommate, thanking her for letting us borrow one of her research animals, and that she could have it back now. Funny, she didn't appreciate our gesture.
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