{"id":486303,"date":"2026-03-20T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486303\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:42:08","slug":"hampshire-village-abuzz-over-capybara-that-escaped-marwell-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486303\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire village abuzz over capybara that escaped Marwell Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laura Read, chief executive of Marwell Wildlife, said teams were working &#8220;around the clock&#8221; to find Samba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tango, another nine-month-old capybara, escaped at the same time but was found nearby &#8211; and the hope is that Samba will still be discovered around the zoo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do think she probably is still quite close by,&#8221; said Read. &#8220;We&#8217;re not ruling out the fact she may have come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the animal was not at risk from predators but urged drivers in the area to take care, particularly at night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;What she&#8217;ll probably do is find somewhere she feels safe and secure, potentially by a water body, and hunker down.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Read, chief executive of Marwell Wildlife, said teams were working &#8220;around the clock&#8221; to find Samba. Tango,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-486303","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\/486303","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=486303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}