Rio's Olympic Golf Course Overrun with Capybaras and Crocodiles Days Ahead of Summer Games

People ^ | August 4, 2016 | Tiare Dunlap

[C19fan]

With many of the world's top golfers having already bowed out of this year's Olympic Games, those intrepid athletes brave enough to make the trip to Rio may be counting on an easier path to victory.

While it's true that the likes of Jason Day, Jordan Speith and Dustin Johnson won't be a threat to the attending golfers' Olympic hopes this year, capybaras, mini crocodiles, monkeys, boa constrictors and other native wildlife will.

The course that will host Olympic golf next Thursday is located in western Rio's Barra da Tijuca, an upscale neighborhood situated between two large lakes and on the edge of the Marapendi nature reserve.

[C19fan]

Carl Spackler would know what to do with capybaras. They are just rodents like ground hogs.

[BigEdLB]

Capybara? Oversized South American rat...

[Gadsden1st]

What’s for dinner?

[rockinqsranch]

Brazil should never have had the Olympics in the first place for multiple reasons, but this is just more proof as to why.

[dfwgator]

Carl Spackler would know what to do with capybaras.

"To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a Capybara. And a Capybara will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Capybara Cong."

[Dr. Ursus]

First world countries are dwindling rapidly and third world sewers are multiplying!

[NFHale]

“...Capybaras and Crocodiles ...”

There I was... surrounded by Capybaras and Crocodiles... but did I panic??? I think NOT...

[RckyRaCoCo]

Better bring the Billy Baroo with you.

[SES1066]

I think that the “mini Crocodile” is better known as a caiman, a close cousin (but not kissing). At least the authorities have, I presume, removed some of the other natural impediments; piranhas, electric fish, anacondas and then there is that little fish that has been know to swim upstream for those who are taking a ‘natural break’, the Candirú.

[C19fan]

Carl would need more C4 to make plastic explosive models of capybaras. Those rats can grow to almost five feet in length.

[kanawa]

Capybaras are cool.

[gunsequalfreedom]

In case you have no idea what a capybara is. Playing through. Excuse me, can I play through?

[kanawa]

Capybara case closed with Bonnie and Clyde safely back home at High Park Zoo

[sockmonkey]

By the pic, that is obviously a male capybara.

[Tijeras_Slim]

But he’s thinking of transitioning.

[FearlessFreep]

Or a bad case of cameltoe.

[MAexile]

Well that’s one way to make golf interesting...

[hal ogen]

No...I think that is a candid taken of the moocher on one of her taxpayer-funded vacays.

[1rudeboy]

Yup, and apparently healthy.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Looks like a beaver with big gonads.