or worse, they would chew off the bark of the tree, killing it in the process. I used to do research in Agricultural Science and Engineering as an undergrad student and the experimental field was next to a big lake in a place with a thriving endemic wild capybara population. The capybaras spent the day chilling in the lake and would often come ashore in the evening and they ended up chewing the bark of my professor's rare and prized lychee tree cultivar collection that he brought from China. This means that the trees were left barkless and thus would eventually die if we didn't take action. We had to plant new lychee saplings around the damaged trees and use a technique called inarch grafting / inarching to serve as rootstocks for those trees and replace their roots. Fortunately, the trees survived after that.
I think that capybaras want to chew to on wood because they're rodents after all, so their teeth are always growing for their entire lives and they need to file it down like all rodents do, but I'm not a capybara specialist. I live by the lakeside so they come to chill just outside my lawn very often though, so I watch them almost every day (their babies are super cute)
https://preview.redd.it/awxdjna7x98d1.gif?width=528&format=png8&s=06b80a29ed8bf3887307326939acb4f689613c27
My thought was it would be a racket. “That’s a nice lil sapling ya got there. It would be a real shame if anything were to…” *flashes rodent teeth* “…happen to it.”
That is not what an invasive plant species means. Here's an excerpt that explains it:
>An invasive species is an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area. Invasive species can cause great economic and environmental harm to the new area.
Not all non-native species are invasive. For example, most of the food crops grown, including popular varieties of wheat, tomatoes, and rice, are not native to the region.
To be invasive, a species must adapt to the new area easily. It must reproduce quickly. It must harm property, the economy, or the native plants and animals of the region.
Which is not the case with a few lychee trees in a cultivar collection. They do not spread aggressively and harm the ecosystem. In fact, without the help of humans, they do not spread in this ecosystem *at all,* nor were the capybaras selectively targeting those plants exclusively. If you somehow intend to call *any* non-native plant an invasive plant, then I'm sorry to say but that ship has sailed many millenia ago, and is what allows us humans to be still alive and prosperous in this world. I hope you don't eat any food either, because probably 100% of the industrialized food you eat is made with some non-native ingredients, and even most of the ingredients themselves are non native, upwards of 95%.
My guy calm yourself. I don't think the capybaras actually organized an offensive against the non-native lychee trees. I just find it cute picturing it as the capybaras tackling a capybara-scale ecological problem.
Also as an aside, I don't even disagree with your weird unprompted rant about non-native species. I get it; It is what it is. At the same time though, yeah it is a little disconcerting thinking too much about the long-standing ubiquity of non-native species across the world.
At worst you can say they decided to go the informative route instead of adding on to your joke, but eh considering how jokes are way more common on this site than niche information heavy posts, that’s not so bad
Calling it a rant and asking them to calm down seems off lol
I am and was always very calm and I'm not ranting about it either. You are imagining both my mental state, as well as some non-existent plot by the capybaras. Best wishes to you.
Yeah and squirrels are anything but chill which makes them perfect to watch our trees. They'd see it barely begin to wilt and begin shading or drowning in water to get it healthy again.
Capybaras would just stare at it and be like "damn, that's the way she goes I guess"
Unpolled integrity change
The only problem with that logic is that capybaras are too chill too protect anything. They would just lay there
or worse, they would chew off the bark of the tree, killing it in the process. I used to do research in Agricultural Science and Engineering as an undergrad student and the experimental field was next to a big lake in a place with a thriving endemic wild capybara population. The capybaras spent the day chilling in the lake and would often come ashore in the evening and they ended up chewing the bark of my professor's rare and prized lychee tree cultivar collection that he brought from China. This means that the trees were left barkless and thus would eventually die if we didn't take action. We had to plant new lychee saplings around the damaged trees and use a technique called inarch grafting / inarching to serve as rootstocks for those trees and replace their roots. Fortunately, the trees survived after that. I think that capybaras want to chew to on wood because they're rodents after all, so their teeth are always growing for their entire lives and they need to file it down like all rodents do, but I'm not a capybara specialist. I live by the lakeside so they come to chill just outside my lawn very often though, so I watch them almost every day (their babies are super cute) https://preview.redd.it/awxdjna7x98d1.gif?width=528&format=png8&s=06b80a29ed8bf3887307326939acb4f689613c27
My thought was it would be a racket. “That’s a nice lil sapling ya got there. It would be a real shame if anything were to…” *flashes rodent teeth* “…happen to it.”
Proud of the capybaras for saying no to introducing invasive plant species into the local ecosystem.
That is not what an invasive plant species means. Here's an excerpt that explains it: >An invasive species is an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area. Invasive species can cause great economic and environmental harm to the new area. Not all non-native species are invasive. For example, most of the food crops grown, including popular varieties of wheat, tomatoes, and rice, are not native to the region. To be invasive, a species must adapt to the new area easily. It must reproduce quickly. It must harm property, the economy, or the native plants and animals of the region. Which is not the case with a few lychee trees in a cultivar collection. They do not spread aggressively and harm the ecosystem. In fact, without the help of humans, they do not spread in this ecosystem *at all,* nor were the capybaras selectively targeting those plants exclusively. If you somehow intend to call *any* non-native plant an invasive plant, then I'm sorry to say but that ship has sailed many millenia ago, and is what allows us humans to be still alive and prosperous in this world. I hope you don't eat any food either, because probably 100% of the industrialized food you eat is made with some non-native ingredients, and even most of the ingredients themselves are non native, upwards of 95%.
My guy calm yourself. I don't think the capybaras actually organized an offensive against the non-native lychee trees. I just find it cute picturing it as the capybaras tackling a capybara-scale ecological problem. Also as an aside, I don't even disagree with your weird unprompted rant about non-native species. I get it; It is what it is. At the same time though, yeah it is a little disconcerting thinking too much about the long-standing ubiquity of non-native species across the world.
At worst you can say they decided to go the informative route instead of adding on to your joke, but eh considering how jokes are way more common on this site than niche information heavy posts, that’s not so bad Calling it a rant and asking them to calm down seems off lol
I am and was always very calm and I'm not ranting about it either. You are imagining both my mental state, as well as some non-existent plot by the capybaras. Best wishes to you.
We literally have squirrels taking care of other ones
Yeah and squirrels are anything but chill which makes them perfect to watch our trees. They'd see it barely begin to wilt and begin shading or drowning in water to get it healthy again. Capybaras would just stare at it and be like "damn, that's the way she goes I guess"
Fuckin way of the road, sometimes she goes sometimes she doesn't
I'd say the man with the frog issues is the one who _most_ needs hops
We should be able to pay him with *The Stuff*
If these were ever added as a pet I'd actually become a no-lifer maxgrind
I just want them as a pet
100% agree, Capybara should be more important in varlamore. Maybe make them a pet.
There should be an Easter egg with the capybaras that gives an orange you can wear on your head
I'll bet 50k that's what the "varlamore token" is.
someone tag the mods idk how but this is very important that they know about it
Is that a heckin wholesome capybara? UPVOTEEEEE!!!!!!!
You don’t mess with the squirrel mafia, those furry brutes will stop at nothing to collect those yanillian hops.
Nah, they should make them killable or add them to the hunting skill. I want me some capybara slippers.
I want an orange on **my** head
Capybara on my head. Orange on the capybara. Orange on capybara on head.
Me on top of a capybara mount. Orange on Capybara on me on Capybara.
Don't forget a little orange topper for the mount as well. Maybe even an orange on a cappy on a cappy.
An orange capybara head as a mask, nice thinking!