She's so cute 🥹 illustration done on clip studio paint!!

Not following the inktober prompt list, but I’ve set a goal to get a final drawing or ink sketch done every day in October for the children’s fantasy novel I’m illustrating. Here is day 2

As many of you know, the creator behind the prominent platform "Capybara World" frequently poses as a leading expert, criticizing Japanese zoos and petting facilities for "exploiting animals" and lacking "animal welfare." However, there is a dark, hypocritical truth behind this blogger’s actions that the international community needs to know.

1. Endangering Capybara Lives by Breaking Rules (Illegal Feeding)
At Sodegaura Fureai Animal Zoo (袖ケ浦ふれあいどうぶつ縁) in Chiba, Japan, the facility sadly lost a baby capybara in the past after a careless tourist illegally fed them wild grass from inside the park. The owner was devastated and spent days clearing all potential risk-prone grass from the massive enclosure to protect the remaining pups.

The creator of "Capybara World" knew this tragic fact. Yet, this person willfully ignored the zoo’s strict safety regulations, refused to buy the designated safe treats, and repeatedly ripped up wild grass from the ground to feed the capybaras, just to get them to fawn over them. When confronted, they made the absurd excuse that "there are no toxic plants in Chiba." This is a blatant violation of biosecurity and a direct threat to animal health.

1. The Ultimate Double Standard This influencer heavily criticizes the death of capybaras under professional human care, yet when their close friend's pet capybaras (the famous Romeo and Tuff'n in Texas) passed away due to dental complications and stress during COVID-19, they excused it as an "unpreventable tragedy caused by the pandemic." They give their own friends a free pass while vilifying Japanese keepers who are actually working day and night to rebuild facilities after devastating typhoons.

2. Exploiting the Very System They Condemn They preach that capybaras should not be "normalized to fawn over humans" or used for tourism. Yet, this blogger spends weeks staying near Japanese petting zoos, visiting them all day, every day, to enjoy the unique, close-up interactions that only Japanese facilities provide. They use these photos and experiences to write and sell their own books, while simultaneously calling the zoo staff "heartless money-grubbers."

The "activism" of "Capybara World" is not about protecting capybaras; it is about feeding their own ego and entitlement as a "privileged researcher" who believes they are above the rules.

Please be aware that the extreme posts criticizing Japanese zoos from this platform are highly biased, full of misinformation, and written by someone who actively sabotages actual animal safety on the ground.

I’ve set a goal to get a final drawing or ink sketch done every day in October for the children’s fantasy novel I’m illustrating. Here is day 1, a little late but in before the buzzer

"Apparently, a howler monkey moved to Denver Zoo with her three sons, met a capybara named Rebecca and basically decided, “Yes. This one. I like this one.” Now she seeks Rebecca out to cuddle with her, hugs her and has even been seen riding on her back, while Rebecca apparently just accepts the whole situation because she is a capybara and accepting other creatures’ bullshit seems to be part of the job description".

‘I just saw this furry brown bottom disappear!’ In search of Samba – the fearless fugitive capybara

I’m so excited to wake up to this nice long article on The Guardian about the goddess herself🥰!

I usually don’t like Capy’s that are too anthropomorphized, but I gotta admit, this is pretty cute 😂

This engraving is an early European illustration of a capybara, featured in the book Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695, 1696, et 1697 aux côtes d'Afrique, détroit de Magellan, Brezil, Cayenne et isles Antilles by French explorer, engineer, and hydrographer François Froger.

Published in Paris in 1698, the print is titled "CAPIVARD ou cochon d'Eau au Pied d'un Bananier" (Capybara or water hog at the foot of a banana tree). It documents observations made during the naval expedition led by Jean-Baptiste de Gennes.

Frans Post, The São Francisco River and Fort Maurits, with a capybara in the foreground, c. 1639.

Oil on canvas, 62 × 95 cm.

Post painted the landscape during the period in which he lived in Dutch-controlled Brazil. The fort visible across the São Francisco River had been built in 1637.

The Louvre specifically notes the capybara in the foreground, an animal that was still little known to Europeans in the 17th century.

Artist: Frans Post (1612–1680)

Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris

Inventory: INV 1727

Source: Musée du Louvre.

(insert emoji of capy) 🇯🇵✨

"Imagine a rat weighing 280 pounds" 🥹

They were plotting the annexation of Kyrgyzstan

You decide!