Toronto ’s High Park Zoo has been impart red - faced yet again . Thanks to a oversight in zoological security , two of the world ’s large gnawer have escaped into the city . Despite being actually fairly massive , the partners in law-breaking – named Bonnie and Clyde , of course of study – have yet to be captured by agency , who have spent the last three calendar week judge to hunt them down .

Zoo staff were leave abashed last yr when asizeable Inachis io managed to drop away awayunnoticed and elude capture , despite it being one of the most flamboyant , colorful , and broad creatures on the entire planet . These two new beast yard bird , who broke gratis from their envelopment on May 24 , will surely only attend to to incense the zoo ’s question of surety even further .

These two escapees are capybara , which are gnawer nearly related to guinea pigs that normally reside in South America . They ’re highly societal , and can sometimes be regain in mathematical group count up to 100 individuals . They can grow to over 1.3 meters ( 4 feet ) in duration , and some have been know to burden up to 100 kilograms ( 220 punt ) .

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They ’ve clearly settled into living in the big metropolis , and they ’ve even take toTwitterto portion out their exploits . It appear that they ’ve been conversing about the nature of freedom with squirrel , and brag about their escapology skills .

One report suggests that one of the escapees wascaught in a maw , but manage to joggle spare before it was for good trapped in spite of appearance . They have now and then been spot by pedestrians but are , at present , still on the lam .

“ capybara are middling adaptative creature , ”   Luciano Verdade , a wildlife ecologist at the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil , toldNational Geographic . “ Although they are comparatively large animal , they can be misleading in the propinquity of humanity . ”

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They normally need to eat up grasses aboriginal to their South American habitat , but they are utterly able to eat other vegetation in place of this . The furtive gnawer ninjas can even switch between being fighting during the solar day and night ; even if they are spotted , they are semi - aquatic , which intend they could evade seizure by quickly diving deep underwater .

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