Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 28 (UPI) --A capybara bathing contest held across multiple zoos in Japan was won by a rodent -- aptly named Prune -- who ...

A capybara named Puruun, or "Prune," has officially claimed Japan's coziest crown. According to Japanese publication The Mainichi, Prune, who lives at Nagasaki Bio Park in Saikai, Nagasaki Prefecture, ...

You've probably come across photos of the contented capybara – unceremoniously unbothered, sinking into a steaming onsen filled with bobbing yuzu fruit. The world's most relaxed and social animal is ...

Every winter, zoos across Japan open the onsen, traditional hot springs baths, for their capybaras to enjoy. This custom began in the winter of 1982 at the Izu Shaboten Zoo. A zookeeper cleaning the ...

SAITAMA -- Nagasaki Bio Park's "Prune" has won the national "capybara long bath showdown" with a dip lasting 1 hour, 45 minutes and 18 seconds, while "Hechima" of Saitama Children's Zoo Park -- known ...