Owners of Florida’s Capybara Café say they are surprised by its popularity, hosting about 100 customers per day.

Their image adorns backpacks and stuffed animals, and in Tokyo, tourists pay premiums to feed them carrots at capybara cafes. But to some people in one corner of their native land, the cuddly ...

Several zoos and wildlife parks across the U.S. offer encounters with capybaras, but Angel said none of them provide the intimacy with the animals that visitors get at the Capybara Cafe.

"He was just very sweet." The capybara — a semi-aquatic South American relative of the guinea pig — is the latest in a long line of "it" animals to get the star treatment in the United States.

“He was just very sweet.” The capybara — a semi-aquatic South American relative of the guinea pig — is the latest in a long line of “it” animals to get the star treatment in the United ...

“He was just very sweet.” The capybara — a semi-aquatic South American relative of the guinea pig — is the latest in a long line of “it” animals to get the star treatment in the United ...