The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium and its visitors are mourning the loss of a "guest favorite" capybara. Ripple, a 12-year-old capybara who arrived to the zoo in 2017, had to be euthanized on Dec. 29.

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima Prefecture--They are friendly to humans and are gentle-hearted, and therefore they hit the spot at any zoo ... enter the capybara. The birth of capybaras was celebrated at ...