“The children have been very excited,” he said.
“Some of them have been down the Itchen looking for the capybara, and there was a lot of hope it might turn up close to the school.
“We’ve had some children make missing posters, and some have even used it for their homework and written poems about Samba.”
One pupil, nine-year-old Rupert, wrote a poem about the escape, which included the lines: “[Samba] was seen by the Itchen, eating a chocolate bar. Someone said she’d been in their kitchen, trying to play the guitar.”