{"id":516398,"date":"2026-04-06T19:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:56:17","slug":"raccoon-stows-away-on-cargo-ship-that-arrived-in-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516398\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoon stows away on cargo ship that arrived in Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The animal is believed to have travelled on the Maersk Bognor, which docked at the port yesterday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is unclear where the raccoon first boarded the ship, but it is thought to have made the journey unnoticed among cargo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Port staff reportedly spotted the animal shortly after the vessel arrived.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25984875.heartbeat-shirley-pub-reopens-150k-makeover\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Heartbeat of Shirley&#8217; pub reopens after \u00a3150k makeover<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Raccoons are not native to the UK, so it is understood that the animal boarded the ship during a stop across the Atlantic and decided that Southampton was a fitting place to disembark.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    A raccoon has managed to stow away aboard a cargo ship that has arrived in Southampton. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1pnFU3IVLb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1pnFU3IVLb<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 Ross Marshall (@RossMarshall87) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossMarshall87\/status\/2041090332738060411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 6, 2026<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n  This comes after a red fox from Southampton stunned officials after secretly boarding a cargo ship and travelling 3,400 miles to New York City, where it was discovered two weeks later and taken into care at Bronx Zoo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is understood the racoon is in the care of the RSPCA.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The animal is believed to have travelled on the Maersk Bognor, which docked at the port yesterday. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-516398","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\/516398","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=516398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}