Thank you very much for sending an email and for your support. You have written that so beautifully. He is the leader of the herd A. Very wise Intelligent and gentle leader who has kept the herd peaceful. No human being could act the way the bio park managers are acting.

Thank you very much. I really appreciate your support for Donut.

Thank you very much. I really appreciate that.

Thank you very much. It means so much to me that you have helped Donut. It is so cruel what the Biopark want to do to him.

Thank you very much. I really, really appreciate that. It is the only way we can do Anything to help Donut

An excellent idea. Thank you for thinking of it. I want to write them about this as well.

Thank. You very, very, very much. It means so much to me that you Are helping Donut and me.

​@scottbubb2946 Thank you very much. Donut needs all the help we can get.

They have not had babies for 5 years. Because they did not listen to me. Aoba should have been the female They bred in 2019 and 2020 I have written a blog about this on my capybara world word press site Explaining why they have not had babies, but they have decided to blame the for male capybaras in the main herd When in reality it was their Ignorance, and. mistakes. There are 3 reasons they Have not had babies which I have written about.

#JUSTICEFORDONUT

It is very cruel, but the bio park don't care.

😭

Thank you very much. Here is the link. www.biopark.co.jp/en/inquiry/ I also have an email address for the chief animal keeper. I need to find it. You are absolutely right, moving. Donut will destroy him he will lose everything and he is going to a horrible enclosure which is small with concrete floor and no big pond. It is cruel beyond belief.

I was there just over a year ago, they said it was because he fought with other capybaras

@@CYGOR01 How are they going to prevent such fights from occuring in the future?

​@CYGOR01 That was a very primitive reply. Years ago, he fought with his brother Choco. He does not fight with the other capybaras. The ones who fight are syrup and prune.

​@@Samuel-fd6hyPlease do not believe what the keepers at the Biopark Say they know very little about the capybaras. The reason for sending the capybaras away has nothing to do with fighting.

He fought with his brother 7 years ago and split his lip.

That is a very good idea, I. Will do that just now. Thank you. So much.

www.biopark.co.jp/en/inquiry/

@@CapybaraWorld I sent an email, thanks for the internet link

​@memdolt2354 Thank you very, very, very much. I really appreciate your help to save Donut.

Ha ha!

He was amazing. The other 3 capybaras in his herd did not want to be petted, only fed!

Thank you very much. It was a labour of love and accumulated knowledge and understanding of capybara from the class all my years with capybaras

Thank you yes that is why I gave him that name

​@@CapybaraWorld Did Aoba manage to breed?

@Samuel-fd6hy No, the bio park refused to let her breed even though she was the obvious choice. The result is that they have not had any babies for 5 years and this has destroyed the herd. In the wild there would be babies born into the herd every year. And that controls the behaviour so the capybaras learn how to behave according to their status.

@@CapybaraWorld So how is she doing right now? Is the bio park making reforms on Capybara treatment and how has the herd been "destroyed" by their decisions?

The most wonderful animals in the world!

Yes he was almost in a trance and so blissful. I completely fell in love with him

Yes he let me pet him for almost 10 minutes and it was so rewarding to see him so happy

Yes, absolutely.

Yes, they are the most perfect animals.

Very good!

@@CapybaraWorld kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKeXZbFyntXWZ58.html This is a link for CapyTen's video of the herd that dropped three hours ago. The words about the capybaras is very kind. I'm really amazed at the general age of the capys at BioPark. I hope they have a plan for older capybaras. They have created a place that the capabaras largely lead fulfilling lives. It may just be that you can't treat older capybaras differently without subjecting them to unwanted attention from the herd. I was so happy to see Hinase had a peaceful life in the end. No attacks. Thanks for sharing your videos, they bring joy and I think about them and their lives. Maybe I will see BioPark someday.

@@spectrumboss6696 Thank you very much for the link. I will go there but the next 4 months are going to be very hectic! You will enjoy the Biopark so I hope you can go there.

@@CapybaraWorld I hope maybe you get a documentary done , it's quite ambitious but you have a phenomenal volume of work. You can open people's eyes to how the capybaras live through the lives of individual capybaras. Following them and knowing their name, being able to identify them in the group. Only then can you begin to understand their situation. I love the Japanese adoption of capybaras as an iconic animal. I laugh and am entertained by their videos, the soundtrack and the graphics are entertaining but limit the educational value. Be encouraged

Thank you very much for your good wishes for the documentary. I do have so much footage of Hinase, both of her in her prime and in her last months. I find it profoundly moving and inspirational her determination to continue to live. I also find it heartbreaking how determined she was to climb that Mossy Hill to be with her daughter, Ryoko. Ryoko had already passed away in tragic circumstances which I have written about elsewhere. It would obviously be an arthouse movie and when I finish it I would like to enter it at an appropriate film festival. I had a place at NYU film school, one of the 2 best world, when I was at NYU and I so regret not taking up the place because I decided to stay in England. I often wish, that among the people who love capybaras, there was a filmmaker, a vet and a billionaire! You are absolutely right in what you say. I get frustrated at the way Japanese people view capybaras and other animals. Are you on messenger? I will be in Japan next 4 months and there is never enough time so it is easier to respond via messenger than KZfaq.

It has the same effect on a capybara as being petted, but I suspect there is also an evolutionary adaptation which enhances the bond between older herd members and the babies. Capybaras also love to be pecked by birds in the wild.

Very good.

But much rarer.

Well, larger maybe 😂

That is a very interesting thought. I must try and find out more.

I've keeping guinea pigs for decades and have never seen a piggie that would have something like the knob shown in this video. Guinea pigs normally just have a spot on their butts where no hair is growing and where you can feel the tip of their tail bones (most guinea pigs have 7 tail bones, but very short and fused together). Though there are lots of different breeds and breeding lines, so it is possible that there are guinea pigs with the same tail knob.

@@ThePeacefulAtom That is extremely interesting. Most capybaras do not have nearly as obvious a knob.

It is the most wonderful experience in the world.

That is very interesting.

It is the most wonderful experience.

With humans being so stupid, they don't need too much of a disguise.

Thank you very much I am pleased you are happy!

Me too! I love capybara

I am really enjoying all the wonderful people who love capybaras ​@@haj5776

Thank you very much.

Very witty.

I completely agree with you. One problem I come across in Japan is that many Japanese people, including many zookeepers, do not understand animals or feel their emotions. Japanese people put up with things that people in the West would not put up with. This may be partly why they are so insensitive to animals suffering.

Yes, so very cute.

I am so envious of you living in Brazil but so sad to hear what you say about the lives of capybaras. It is heartbreaking that anyone driving a car could mercilessly hit them. And it is tragic that the only rivers which many capybaras can swim in are dirty. Thank you very much for your sad but interesting information. I have been studying capybaras for 12 years and I want to learn everything about them so your comments were very useful.

At the time, the biopark always separated pregnant females for 6 weeks before they gave birth and 6 weeks after they gave birth, which was really ignorant. And very dangerous as the female capybaras were often attacked by other females when they were allowed back into the herd, having been out of the herd for so long.

​@@CapybaraWorld they deserve better

@@bbydeluxee Now they are only separated at night and for 6 days after the babies have been born.

Yes, they can be enormously affectionate and as you say it is so important for bonding and for the cohesion of the herd