CAPYBARAS, SPOTTED WHERE THEY SHOULDN'T BE.
Real photos and clips, sent in by people who were just walking somewhere. Five votes a day, no account. The wall reorders itself, so nothing stays on top.
Nothing on the wall yet. The first sightings go up as they are taken — check back, or send one in.
In the meantime, the cafes and the zoos are where you can reliably meet one.
What counts as a sighting
A real photo or a short clip, taken by you, of a real capybara somewhere a capybara is not the main attraction. One on a pavement counts. One in a car park counts. One in a hot spring counts, because the hot spring was there first and it moved in anyway. A stock photo of a capybara in a field does not, and neither does anything generated — we make enough of those ourselves to recognise them.
How the voting works
Five votes a day, no account and no email. Pressing an arrow you are already on takes the vote back and returns the vote to you, so nothing is wasted by changing your mind. Five rather than unlimited because an anonymous arrow with no limit is a click counter, not an opinion — the cap is what makes the ranking worth reading.
The order is not the raw count. A photo posted in March would win forever on that, so the count is weighed against how long the sighting has been up: something sent in this morning can outrank something from last year if enough people agree, and a sighting that stops collecting votes slides down on its own. The number on each tile is its current position, and it moves.
Sending one in
A photo or a clip under about thirty seconds, plus a line about what it was doing. Nothing else is required — an email address is optional and only used if we need to ask you something. Every submission is looked at by a person before it appears, which takes a day or two and is the reason this page isn't full of dogs.
You keep the copyright. Sending it in gives us permission to show it here with your credit on it, and you can ask for it to come down at any time through the contact page.
If you'd rather go looking than wait to get lucky, the capybara cafes and zoos directories are the reliable route, and the wild capybaras guide covers where they turn up with nobody arranging it.