{"id":379438,"date":"2026-01-20T01:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379438\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:58:11","slug":"theyre-extremely-docile-really-chilled-out-capybara-feeding-experience-draws-visitors-from-ni-and-beyond-to-co-down-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379438\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re extremely docile, really chilled out\u2019: Capybara feeding experience draws visitors from NI and beyond to Co Down aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768874291_893_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Watch: Capybara feeding experience draws visitors from across Ireland to Co Down aquarium<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Employees at Exploris Aquarium have said visitors have been travelling from across Ireland for the chance to feed capybaras, after the Co Down attraction reopened with a new hands-on animal experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The aquarium recently introduced a series of guided visitor experience days, including a 30-minute \u2018Capybara Lunch\u2019 that allows guests to prepare and hand-feed food to resident siblings Jack and Jill, under the supervision of its animal care team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch: Capybara feeding experience draws visitors from across Ireland to Co Down aquarium Employees at Exploris Aquarium have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[10152,57911,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-379438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-down-news","9":"tag-kurtis-reid","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}