17-year-old Nicco Phillips was driving to school in Milwaukie, Oregon, when he spotted an animal in the road.

“I was coming down the street and he was just in the middle of the road,” Phillips said. “I just kept driving and I was like, ‘What is that?’ It’s like a big guinea pig, I guess, which kinda bums me out because I was hoping it was like a kangaroo or something.”

The animal was actually a Patagonian cavy, a large rodent native to central and southern Argentina. Link to story. Link to pictures.