After Humans Invade Parana Wetlands To Build Gated Community, Capybaras Invade Right Back

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Nordelta is Argentina’s most well-known gated community: an enclave of spacious homes for the rich amid a dreamy landscape of lakes and streams north of Buenos Aires.

But environmentalists question its very existence because it is built on the wetlands of the Paraná, the second most important river in South America after the Amazon.

Now, however, nature is fighting back against Nordelta’s well-heeled residents. In recent weeks, the community has been invaded by capybaras, who have destroyed manicured lawns, bitten dogs and caused traffic accidents.

“They not only destroy gardens but their excrement has also become a problem,” one local man told the daily La Nación, complaining that local wildlife officials had prohibited residents from touching the large rodents.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/22/argentina-capybaras-giant-rodents-gated-community

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1. Peronistas!

That's funny. They sound like the raccoons in my area, clever and troublesome and territorial.