00:05Hi, I'm Kimberly. I'm a keeper here at the San Diego Zoo, and today we're going to catch some capybaras.
00:17Today we're catching the capybaras because they're really new. They're only two days old, so we have to do their
00:23first medical check.
00:26These babies are really little, and they're really fast, so it's not very easy to catch them.
00:31We have to catch them using a net because they can run really fast.
00:36Mom is not very happy about us catching them, so sometimes she likes to give us a little bit of
00:40a chase.
00:44When we catch them, we give them a medical exam, so we check their teeth, we check their eyes, we
00:50check their temperature,
00:51and we put a little identifier in them to make sure that we know which one is which.
00:55It's being very good.
00:57Capybars are from South America, and they are the world's largest rodent.
01:02They can get up to 150 pounds.
01:05Usually capybars can have between two and six babies at one time, and in this litter there were four.
01:11So even though these capybars are only two days old, they're actually very active.
01:16They can already run and jump and swim, and they're even eating a little bit of food,
01:21but they get most of their nutrition from their mom still.
01:27We'll see you next time.
01:27Bye-bye.
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