{"id":505184,"date":"2026-03-31T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505184\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:46:14","slug":"school-pupils-join-search-for-runaway-capybara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/505184\/","title":{"rendered":"School pupils join search for runaway capybara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head teacher Neil Tunnicliffe said the story had &#8220;really captured the imagination&#8221; of the children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">they&#8217;ve been drawing pictures and one pupil, nine-year-old Rupert, has even written a poem about the escape, which included the lines: &#8220;[Samba] was seen by the Itchen, eating a chocolate bar. Someone said she&#8217;d been in their kitchen, trying to play the guitar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Sunday 22 March, Samba was spotted by a lady walking her dogs by the side of the River Itchen, before she became spooked and jumped into the water and swam off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zoo teams are continuing to search the area and have urged the public not to approach the animal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are asking for sightings to be reported with photos or video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head teacher Neil Tunnicliffe said the story had &#8220;really captured the imagination&#8221; of the children. they&#8217;ve been drawing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-505184","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\/505184","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=505184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}