At the capybara cafe, people line up to snuggle the world’s largest rodents

At the capybara cafe, people line up to snuggle the world’s largest rodents

The cafe has the traditional staples - coffee, muffins, cookies, bottled water and packaged chips. But the lobby is also full of small and large stuffed capybaras, paintings of capybaras, and mugs and T-shirts featuring the social, round-eared animals.

Capybara Cafe will debut in St. Pete July 11

Coming soon to St. Petersburg: Cuddly encounters with giant South American rodents. The Capybara Café, opening July 11 at 4703 Park Street N., will feature – along with bottled water, coffee and cookies – a room where humans can feed and interact with capybaras, docile herbivores with gentle dispositions. The capybara is classified as the largest rodent species in the world. The St. Petersburg location is the second such endeavor for manager Ste…