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Life with the World's Largest Rodent

Car rides, long naps, dips in the pool — this domesticated capybara does it all

MOM & ME

Credit: Courtesy Melanie Typaldos

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Mar 03 2010

MOM & ME

Meet Caplin Rous, a large, domesticated rodent known as a capybara. "He's very needy but I love him to death," says owner Melanie Typaldos, who adopted the pet from a breeder two and a half years ago when he was just 11 days old. "He loves to lick my face and forehead and just follow me around everywhere."

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