[Lexicog] water-dwelling rodent (capybara) rebaptized as fish

[Chaz and Helga Mortensen]

The capybara spends a lot of its time in water but comes out onto land as
well. And they have good speed, I might add.

We used to live in a small town next to a national park, where there were
lots of capybaras. Every evening a few capybaras would congregate on the
shore between the river and a road. One day I was driving along that road
when suddenly a capybara appeared to  my right, running from the forest to
the river. I was sure I would run over it. Prepared not only for the impact
but for paying a fine, I was relieved to see the capybara continuing his run
for the river; he disappeared with a splash.

-Chaz

> > There is a story I remember that a rodent in
> Venezuela or somewhere in that part of the world
> spends all its time in the water
>
> This is a reference to the capybara, a water-dwelling
> rodent which which was declared a fish so that its
> flesh could be eaten during Lent:




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