Posted on 08/22/2016 6:54:12 AM PDT by C19fan
Capybara are real damn cute. Look at this bugger. In fact, capybara are so endearing, that some people may have been importing them to own as pets. This might explain why the 100-pound rodents, which are native to South America’s marshlands, have been showing up in places where they don’t belong. According to biologist Elizabeth Congdon, an assistant professor at Bethune-Cookman University, the state of Florida could have a serious capybara problem—and it might be the fault of exotic pet owners.
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“Capybara sits in the old gum tree...”
Oops! Wrong critter, wrong continent, LOL!
"The capybara that are being seen today are most likely the descendents of escaped captives, but people still find fossilized capybara teeth and bones from Florida’s original capybara in the Santa Fe, Suwannee, St Marks and St Mary’s Rivers in North Florida. You may also find capybara fossils in springs and spring runs like the Ichneetucknee River."
--Wild_Capybara_return_to_Florida-
Now, my questions are, what is a good caliber and load to use? What will be the bag limit? :)
Don’t armadillos eat ants?
Fire ants have spread further north. So have armadillos. Seems they are following those pests.
I would absolutely protect the armadillo to control those damn nasty ants.
What do they wreck?
“Now, my questions are, what is a good caliber and load to use? What will be the bag limit? :) “
FWC says .22 rimfire and single shot .410 only. Year round (no season). Bag limit not specified.
Similar to rabbit?
I love capybraras and wanted to get two of them while I lived in my big house. Sadly, I did not get them but I love capys.
IBTF”TTLC”
In Before The First “They Taste Like Chicken”!
Rabbits are not rodents (members of the Order Rodentia), but rather lagomorps (Order Lagomorpha).
I don't know, but suspect that their meat would taste like beaver.
Regards,
Not. Going. There.
They are in Louisiana already and not causing a problem.
Here in Florida, the moles are the real problem. You should see what one did to the green on the 7th hole at Maple Leaf Country Club. One mole can make a mess of a lawn.
My dogs’ nerves, mostly.
Now that the rains have returned to Texas after several years of drought conditions, I have seen western harvester ants and the Texas Horned Lizard make a return.
Fire ants had driven them out. I guess fire ants don’t like a lot of rain.
But we have plenty of all types of ants. The armadillos are welcome to them.
My Dad had a great fix for his mole problem. He had about 90 left over Oxys and Hydrocodones. So he crushed them, added water to make a paste. He put the paste down the mole holes and never had anymore problems. there’s more than one way to kill a mole. for the record, I think if I ever saw an armadillo, Id have a nervous breakdown.
Ahh ok.
Well, grab yourself a black and tan coonhound from GA, then watch the problem go away heh.
32034 zip
There was only one time on his show “Bizarre Foods” that he looked grossed out, and that was when he was dining with some bushmen in Botswana. They cooked their goat in the dirt and skinned it after it was cooked, eating the entrails without cleaning the animal. I remember Andrew later confessing “That was just about the most awful thing I ever ate”.
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