{"id":393618,"date":"2026-01-27T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393618\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:53:08","slug":"wingham-wildlife-park-baby-capybaras-are-stealing-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393618\/","title":{"rendered":"Wingham Wildlife Park baby capybaras are &#8216;stealing hearts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capybaras &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest rodents &#8211; were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-london-65177286\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an internet sensation back in 2023<\/a> when a TikTok song had hundreds of millions of views, and animal parks and zoos saw a rapid rise in demand to meet them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, keepers caring for capybaras in Oxfordshire described them as &#8220;chilled&#8221; creatures that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c4g70e1z834o\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vibe through life<\/a>&#8220;, with their days starting in the afternoon and not worrying about a thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Back at the park in Kent, Lawler said the trio had received a great deal of attention from visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even before the babies were born obviously, capybaras &#8211; everybody wanted to see them,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now we&#8217;ve got the babies, they&#8217;re getting lots and lots of attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the park always kept fans involved, adding: &#8220;We got people to put some names in. We picked our favourites. We did a poll and that was the one that came top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The keepers are hoping the park will have more capybara babies in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Capybaras &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest rodents &#8211; were an internet sensation back in 2023 when a TikTok song&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-393618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393618","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=393618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}