Capybara Hot Spring at Zoo in Japan
The Saitama Children’s Zoo has set up an onsen to help its Capybaras cope with Japanese winter weather:
The bath measures 1.6 meters long by 1.2 meters wide and is 30 centimeters deep, with water tumbling in that the capybaras can sit under. Every day at 2 p.m., zoo keepers refill the bath with 40-degree water.
The soothing sight of the capybaras bending their necks back and relaxing or happily swimming around the bath is thought to have helped bring in around 50,000 more visitors to the park last financial year than the year before that, for a total of around 560,000 visitors.
At the end of October four babies were born, and they quickly joined their parents in loving the bath.
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