{"id":537554,"date":"2026-04-18T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537554\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:49:07","slug":"three-capybaras-welcomed-to-knockhatch-adventure-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/537554\/","title":{"rendered":"Three capybaras welcomed to Knockhatch Adventure Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anderson added: &#8220;We have had them for a while now and everyone has been excited to come and meet them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are a really interesting species and have a reputation for being the world&#8217;s friendliest animals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The capybaras are about six months old and currently weigh about 25kg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capybaras, which are found across South America except in Chile, can reach 60-70kg when fully grown and are the largest rodents in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anderson said that capybaras have an &#8220;interesting social hierarchy&#8221; and were &#8220;really fun to work with&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The park plans to welcome visitors to the enclosure, including offering experiences to get close to the capybaras and learn more about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anderson added: &#8220;We have had them for a while now and everyone has been excited to come and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-537554","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\/537554","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=537554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}