{"id":496870,"date":"2026-03-26T18:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496870\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:53:10","slug":"hampshire-zoo-capybara-escape-mirrors-incident-30-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496870\/","title":{"rendered":"Hampshire zoo capybara escape mirrors incident 30 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Samba was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c393kwwv2n8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first spotted in Owslebury<\/a> shortly after her escape, before later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1d9pn5d659o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being seen near the River Itchen<\/a> close to Twyford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marwell Zoo said there had been three confirmed sightings backed by photo or video evidence, all within a similar area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, chief executive Laura Read said teams were focusing their search along waterways between Twyford and Allbrook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We really know that that&#8217;s ideal habitat for her,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s calm, it&#8217;s quiet, it&#8217;s got the water, it&#8217;s got plenty of food for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samba was first spotted in Owslebury shortly after her escape, before later being seen near the River Itchen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-496870","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\/496870","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=496870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}