And he would have made an excellent spokesman for the Bush White House.

New Scientist: "The full magnitude of the world's largest ever rodent has been revealed- the now-extinct monster was the size of a cow.
The creature weighed in at 700 kilograms and lived eight million years ago, roaming the lush banks of the ancient Orinoco delta in northwestern Venezuela. But the three-metre-long, 1.3-metre-tall behemoth was an evolutionary cousin of today's humble guinea pig. ...
'Imagine a weird guinea pig, but huge, with a long tail for balancing on its hind legs and continuously growing teeth,' he says. It was 10 times heavier than its closest living relative - the South American capybara. "