{"id":492834,"date":"2026-03-24T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492834\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:46:07","slug":"capybara-search-narrows-in-bid-to-reunite-sisters-at-marwell-zoo-in-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/492834\/","title":{"rendered":"Capybara search narrows in bid to reunite sisters at Marwell Zoo in Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teams from a zoo scouring a stretch of riverbank for a runaway capybara say it is vital she is reunited with her sister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The week-long search to track down and catch Samba started last Tuesday after she escaped with Tango from a temporary holding area at Marwell Zoo, near Winchester, a day after arriving from Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tango was found nearby but her nine-month old sibling has roamed about 2 miles (3.5km) from the zoo and was last seen on Sunday by a dog walker near Twyford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laura Read, the zoo&#8217;s boss, said Tango was &#8220;fine and being checked on regularly&#8230; but they do need to be back together. They are social animals and live in groups, so it&#8217;s really important we reunite them.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teams from a zoo scouring a stretch of riverbank for a runaway capybara say it is vital she&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-492834","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\/492834","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=492834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492834\/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=492834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}