Mealey scaled a low fence near closing at a San Diego wildlife park and lowered himself into the capybara enclosure to deliver a heartfelt, tearful apology to the park’s resident capybara, a 9-year-old male named Gordon, for something he declined to specify. Gordon, the world’s largest rodent and an animal renowned for profound indifference, did not react. Mealey knelt several feet away and apologized at length for ‘everything’ and ‘the way things went.’ Gordon continued chewing and at one point slowly turned away, which Mealey interpreted aloud as Gordon ‘needing time.’ Per a keeper: ‘The man was sobbing. The capybara ate a piece of lettuce. The man said, I understand. The capybara walked into its pool.’ Mealey did not attempt to harm the animal and was, by all accounts, ‘extremely gentle and very sad.’ He was evaluated for intoxication, which was confirmed. Gordon is unharmed and ‘unaware anything happened.’