Ok I Pull Up Capybara

Hydrochoerus placidus

A capybara, filmed riding calmly in the passenger seat of a car, set to the opening line of a rap song.

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Field data

Habitat: TikTok, late 2021 into 2022
First observed: 2021
Diet: Whatever is offered, unhurried about it
Call: No sound of its own, just the song’s opening line
Composition: Body, 1, unbothered. Passenger seat, 1.

Conservation status

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Least concern

Field notes

The audio is the opening of Don Toliver’s “After Party,” released in 2020. Late 2021 TikToks paired it with capybara footage, most memorably a capybara named Cheesecake riding calmly in a car, and it became one of the platform’s most reused sounds of the period.