This week’s absurdist animal invasion? Some cute capybaras in Argentina
It's a vast improvement from last week's hordes of wild Roman boars
Rome succumbed to a blitzkrieg of wild garbage boars last week, a coup whose effects rippled across geopolitical waters to eventually even embroil pop icon, Shakira. Now that the Eternal City is firmly within the trash hogs’ hands, a new, much more insidious threat arises across the Atlantic with eyes set on another major metropolitan center: Capybaras are amassing at the borders of Buenos Aires, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it.
Although clearly employing far less aggressive tactics than their European allies, the giant rodents reportedly number in the hundreds at the moment, and are breeding at a rapid pace in and around the capital city suburb of Tigre. “The population has been increasing over the years,” notes news outlet, KHOU 11, and shows no signs of abating any time soon.
Unlike the aggressive boars of Italy, it is a bit more unclear what the Argentinian capybaras hope to accomplish in their siege, aside from rutting their oversized snoots through very pleasant-looking park grass.