It's one thing to get a goldfish because your daughter begs for one. It's quite another to end up with a hundred-pound rodent who has more than 2,700 Twitter followers. Caplin Rous is a capybara.

“Flora” a female capybara at the Metro Richmond Zoo recently gave birth to three baby capybaras in Chesterfield County. The South American species is the largest rodent in the world and is related to ...