Shore & Outdoors

Turtle Back Zoo Capybara Triplets Get Their Names: Butters, Biscuit and Gravy

Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange let visitors name its three new capybara pups, and New Jersey answered with a breakfast order. I've never felt more understood by a state.

Butters is on griddle duty, Biscuit has the mic, and Gravy is, well, in the gravy. Illustration: State of Laughs

I thought a naming contest was where you pick something cute. Then New Jersey got its hands on one.

Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange asked visitors to name its three new capybara pups, and the winners, according to Patch, are Butters, Biscuit and Gravy.

I want you to sit with that for a second. Three tiny, fuzzy, brand-new babies. Zoo visitors got the chance to hand them names that would follow them for life. And Jersey looked at them and placed an order.

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