El carpincho!!

Today, Thursday, I saw a carpincho! So excited because I remember when Maestra Ana talked about the Uruguayan carpinchos and now I've seen a real, live one. The carpincho is a symbol of Uruguay and it's even on some of their peso coins.

It was happy just munching on the grass and it let me get quite close. It did grunt at one point and looked a bit angry so Sra. Dana grabbed me from the ground just in case it wanted to eat me. Do you know how to say 'carpincho' in English? 

Ans: a carpincho is a capybara, the largest rodent in the world.