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The World's Most Relaxed Rodents

2024 · 4 min · English

At Japan's Izu Shaboten Zoo, capybaras spend winter days soaking in hot-spring baths, a tradition that started by accident in 1982 and has since spread to roughly twenty zoos across the country. The film is content to just watch them float there, which turns out to be enough.

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Why it's free: Free on Great Big Story's own channel; GBS produced and posted it there itself.