{"id":438663,"date":"2026-02-21T22:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438663\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:41:16","slug":"rare-albino-squirrel-spotted-by-dorking-children-in-churchyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438663\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare albino squirrel spotted by Dorking children in churchyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two children have spotted and photographed a rare albino squirrel in a churchyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James, 11, and Jennifer, eight, identified the animal on Monday at St Martin&#8217;s Church in Dorking, Surrey, their mother Abigail told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albino squirrels, thought to a one-in-100,000 genetic occurrence, are identified by their white coat with pink eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the people in the churchyard were quite bemused at what we were looking at but the children were really, really excited, especially my son,&#8221; Abigail said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two children have spotted and photographed a rare albino squirrel in a churchyard. James, 11, and Jennifer, eight,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-438663","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\/438663","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=438663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}