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Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How do you feel about manatees?

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    100 pounds? Capybaras aren’t anywhere near the size of my other examples. But I’d stay out of the water with a manatee. I don’t think a manatee would care about my existence, but I’d be fine with petting one while I’m on a boat and it’s in the water.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Giant is a relative term, w/r/t capybara.

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      • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ah, I take your meaning now. It was a little blurred with the manatee. As recompense for my misunderstanding, here’s a giant grain of sand

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  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Capybaras are awesome!

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Petting a manatee is a $10,000 fine. No touch.

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s the only thing that would keep me from swimming with on. Also that I hate swimming in murky water, reeds, or sea weed.

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They’re cool to swim with! Water’s plenty clear where they hang. Ex-gf was a diver and had a side hustle taking people swimming with manatees near the warm springs where they post up for the winter.

        They’ll come right up on you! You just can’t touch them. She even got a pic of a newborn! Like, a few minutes old newborn!

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d much rather turn a blind corner and find myself standing right in front of a grizzly mother with her cubs than a hippo or a moose.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s a band of capibaras living in my city… they already killed 2 people.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Capybara are dangerous?! Do they kill by biting or what?

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, they bite.

      The local news had to run a campaign for people not to try to pet the capibaras.

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  • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I need a source for this desparately

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