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I just watched the most gangster animal video I've seen in a while. The lack of fear here just got pure respect from me.
That animal you see chilling passing a bunch of resting crocodiles is called a capybara. It looks so cute and could easily be taken down by just one of the crocodiles but it totally didn’t seem worried like it was off to grab some chips and Coca Cola. The crocodiles too, to have that many crocodiles, at least one must be hungry so why didn't they attack and where's the capybara getting the social boldness from?
Initially, I thought it was edited but apparently it is just capybara normal behaviour. They are chill and social and have figured out how to live around predators without being on the menu.
Another point to why it was safe for this cute little pie is that crocodiles don’t necessarily hunt animals that are close by (not proximity per say, but social bonding). If they are full they won’t bother hunting, and capybaras are pretty large, not an easy meal to catch. So, given time I guess they both cohabitate. I would not say they're really friends, but they also don't behave like enemies either.
I am not sure if I call the capybara brave or just indifferent though, they may not even register danger the same way as we think they should. The whole scene was really what caught my attention, it was so quiet. There was no drama, just capybara going into the water and crocodiles flopped over like logs. Well watching a documentary of this I've learned nature doesn’t need to be violent to be interesting sometimes.
It does make me wonder if there are other things in our lives that we consider dangerous but it ends up being or maybe I am over thinking this scenario for a rodent that doesn’t over think, because if they did overthink, a crocodile should not be your friend.