By Associated Press - Friday, April 21, 2017

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Animal control officers captured a near-threatened rodent in a Las Vegas parking lot on Thursday.

Reports say the captured Patagonian mara is indigenous to Argentina.

A Clark County spokesman says the rodent has been taken to an animal control shelter.



Authorities did not know where the animal came from.

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