Domesticated Capybaras

The Andean civilizations domesticated guinea pigs as a source of food. This got me thinking: a capybara is basically like a large guinea pig. Since it’s much larger, and since it is not particularly fast or powerful, it seems like an easily domesticatable animal. So why haven’t any American civilizations domesticated it? What would be the effect if early American civilizations domesticated the capybara?
 
In addition, capybara’s a re social creatures, which makes them even easier for domestication.
 
The Andean civilizations domesticated guinea pigs as a source of food. This got me thinking: a capybara is basically like a large guinea pig. Since it’s much larger, and since it is not particularly fast or powerful, it seems like an easily domesticatable animal. So why haven’t any American civilizations domesticated it? What would be the effect if early American civilizations domesticated the capybara?
Its also a heavily hunted, very skittish animal that flees to water as its escape, which means it is almost impossible to corner and being that they are found in the Amazon it would have been very difficult to catch in very large numbers and feed as well.
 
Natives would have to domesticate dogs to be able to hunt such an animal with the habits, that wtw mentioned.
 
Natives would have to domesticate dogs to be able to hunt such an animal with the habits, that wtw mentioned.
This, what the peoples of the Amazon are technically hunting dogs but they are not know for being good at catching, they are more akin to pointers not hounds. On this note there are known cases of them capturing individuals in traps and keeping them as pets until they eat them, and this has been the case for a long time. The factors that I mentioned before has prevented any domestication until recently.
 
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