{"id":522966,"date":"2026-04-10T08:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522966\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:03:08","slug":"marwell-zoo-challenging-search-for-missing-capybara-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522966\/","title":{"rendered":"Marwell Zoo: &#8216;Challenging&#8217; search for missing capybara continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Samba arrived at the zoo on 16 March after being transferred from Jimmy&#8217;s Farm and Wildlife Park in Suffolk, but escaped the following day along with her sister Tango.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Tango was quickly found nearby, Samba, described as the &#8220;more adventurous&#8221; of the pair, could not be located.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an update issued on Thursday, Marwell Wildlife said: &#8220;Our teams remain fully committed and continue to carry out extensive searches both day and night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are still using specialist tracking dogs, thermal drone technology, and camera traps in key areas where Samba is most likely to travel, particularly along waterways and dense vegetation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While this is a challenging search due to the size of the area and Samba&#8217;s natural instincts to stay hidden, we are not giving up and remain focused on bringing her home safely.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samba arrived at the zoo on 16 March after being transferred from Jimmy&#8217;s Farm and Wildlife Park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-522966","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\/522966","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=522966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}