>>57595007>a convergent capy made to look like a tailless bibarel would be coolThat wouldn't be convergent, it would be regional (parallel in biological terms), like a bison and a buffalo, or a leopard and a jaguar, having a common ancestor from whom they inherited common traits and developed in a similar way due to similar environmental pressures.
A good example of convergence would be the torpedo-shaped forms of sharks, dolphins, ichthyosaurs, and penguins, having very distant common ancestors without any important inherited characteristics and coming to have similar traits due to similar environmental pressures.
In short, if they are part of the same family, it is parallelism, and if they are from different families, it is convergence. Capybaras and beavers are rodents.
