{"id":510787,"date":"2026-04-03T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510787\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:00:20","slug":"marwell-zoo-not-giving-up-search-for-missing-capybara-samba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/510787\/","title":{"rendered":"Marwell Zoo not giving up search for missing capybara Samba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laura Read, CEO of Marwell Zoo, said: &#8220;We will always follow up on any public sighting. We still have that public number available. She won&#8217;t evade everybody forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Read said the capybara&#8217;s escape had striking similarities to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpqxll71pz9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">incident that occurred 30 years ago<\/a> when two escaped capybaras were found along the same stretch of water at the centre of the current search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not giving up,&#8221; she said. &#8220;When this happened 30 years ago, it took two months to locate and get them back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re in it for the long haul. We&#8217;ve got a duty of care and we will exercise that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Samba and her sister, Tango, arrived at the zoo on 16 March after being transferred from Suffolk, but both escaped the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tango, also nine months old, was found close to the zoo and was swiftly retrieved, but her sibling remains at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Missing Samba quickly became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c393kwwv2n8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">talk of the village<\/a> after she was first spotted in the nearby village of Owslebury on the evening of 17 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Read, CEO of Marwell Zoo, said: &#8220;We will always follow up on any public sighting. We still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-510787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510787","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=510787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}