Giant rodent spotted loitering in a parking lot

 

BEING MALAYSIANS, we shouldn’t be surprised to find a stray cat or dog loitering the streets. Since the average Malaysian street isn’t as clean as in Singapore, a rat or two shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone anyway.

But what happens if said rodent is the size of an average dog? Now that should get any local passerby gawking, and for good reason.

In a video post on X by netizen @Cikgu_Anep, a capybara could be seen loitering in a parking lot, its very presence, a defiance against the faunas of Malaysia. 

First and foremost, it is impossible to find a capybara here since the creature is endemic in South America. 

The only likely answer is that the creature somehow found its way out of a zoo or its owner is a strange person to choose such an exotic creature as an animal companion. 

Netizens too have much to say about this creature which looks very much out of place.

According to netizen @fxris_rs, a staff from the zoo informed him that a capybara could fetch a price of about RM40,000. Now that is a lot of money.

If what he claimed was true, a single capybara is equivalent to the price of an affordable car. Then there was @NdxxHan cautioning that the passing cars might harm the animal, adding that people should save it.

“Did it get loose from Zoo Negara?” wondered @tsar_rule while @princJuna claimed the animal belonged to a Chinese in the Selayang area.

Even more amusing was the comment from @Pig_raise, asking that the capybara be caught as it breeds quickly and is capable of destroying the ecosystem.

However, @WaterSpinach69 pointed out that this is unlikely since the creature was alone. On another note, the capybara in the video is considered small since the creature can grow up to a length of one metres, with a lifespan of about a decade.

We can only hope this gentle animal finds an easy lifestyle living in a foreign land.— Focus Malaysia