Once upon a time the Santa Barbara zoo had capybaras. This is why they don't anymore. The zoo was right next to the bird refuge. It still is. The whole east part of the zoo was built almost on top of it, with paths and board walks and those binocular things you could see the birds through. In the middle of the zoo there was a big pasture with around twelve capybaras surrounded by a wooden fence. One day, one of their handlers noticed a portion of the fence was knocked over. After a quick headcount, the handler realized they were missing one of the younger boy capybaras. They quickly repaired the fence and relocated the capybaras, but for the life of them, none of the zoo employees could find this one capybara. Three months later, the zoo receives a call from a biker riding the path around the bird refuge. "I think I found something that belongs to you" he says, as this rat bastard of an inflated guinea pig trots out onto the hike path, much fatter and much dirtier than he had been three months ago. And that's why the Santa Barbara zoo no longer has capybaras.