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Also, I went to the San Francisco Zoo a few weeks back. Since there were no longer any tigers around to taunt, I capped on the Capybara for a while. As a gesture of good will to Capybara everywhere, we added this Plant a Tree Widget from the Nature Conservancy. Donate and help plant a billion trees in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.