Yes John, is the same animal, here is protected and have some period of time to be hunted, is a very very big ginea pig

it taste good something like pig, as you sayed we have very good meats and are by far much more cheap than the capivara meat, let say it's an special food, happend that I live in a river and island zone (where the capivara lives, we call it carpincho) where time ago was full of this animals, and became a special piece for hunting because of it skin and meat that the spanish that came here by 1570 lerned from the indians, the true is that I'm not quite agree about the hunting but I couldn't say no to the invitation of my wife father, I ate a lot because there were bobine meat and chiken too in the barbacue

we argentinians have a saying: Todo bicho que camina va a parar al asador something like every creature that walk can go to the barbacue

but the true is the capivara is a very beautiful animal, red big and dangerous animal, the one in the barbacue was about 100 kg

What a ginea pig!!!