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Baby Sasuke and Kikyo look so adorable as they clamber all over Aoba, chewing her whiskers and biting her ears, and sliding over her face on their bottoms! Aoba loves babies and it is heartbreaking and tragic that she has not been allowed to have babies even though she is the female capybara who would have been the first choice of any zoo in the West. She is the largest capybara in the herd, with the sweetest, kindest nature. Her mother, Momiji, invested so much in Aoba, letting her suckle for 8 months rather than the usual 4 months. As a result, Aoba grew to be the largest capybara in the herd. Momiji would have been a fantastic grandmother. Nagasaki Bio Park has not had baby capybaras for three years because of their refusal to let Aoba breed. This was to punish me for highlighting some Animal Welfare issues, as they knew Aoba was one of my favourites. The capybara they chose to breed was the lowest ranking female capybara, she was chosen because they thought she would let the keepers handle the pups as
