{"id":491101,"date":"2026-03-23T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:36:09","slug":"dog-walker-says-tough-task-to-catch-rapid-marwell-capybara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/491101\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog walker says tough task to catch &#8216;rapid&#8217; Marwell capybara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laura Read, chief executive officer of Marwell Wildlife, said teams have had several false alarms after picking up muntjac deer with the drones as they are about the same size as Samba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got nets and we have got the option of a dart gun which would temporarily knock her out&#8230; but if she is anywhere near the water that is a no-go so it would be the case of trying to grab her with a net,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Read described Samba as &#8220;the size of a small to medium dog &#8211; not as big as a spaniel, light brown but she is not fully grown \u2013 as she is only nine months old&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The zoo has urged people in the area to keep their dogs on leads to avoid scaring Samba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anyone who believes they have seen her is asked to contact the zoo immediately and send a photo or video with details of the location so they can confirm the sighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tango, a second nine-month-old capybara who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-suffolk-67891039\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also arrived from Jimmy&#8217;s Farm and Wildlife Park in Suffolk<\/a>, escaped at the same time as Samba but was found nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Read, chief executive officer of Marwell Wildlife, said teams have had several false alarms after picking up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-491101","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\/491101","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=491101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}