{"id":538635,"date":"2026-04-19T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538635\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:54:12","slug":"from-capybara-to-skunks-the-souths-strangest-animal-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538635\/","title":{"rendered":"From capybara to skunks &#8211; the South&#8217;s strangest animal sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-hampshire-62678259\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An 18ft Burmese python<\/a> was spotted on the roof of a house in Chandler&#8217;s Ford, Hampshire, after escaping from a nearby property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents only realised what they were seeing when it tried to get through an upstairs window, before a neighbour carried it back to its owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luckily, one brave woman, Linda Elmer, who recognised the snake, stepped in and dealt with the situation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone was panicking,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I picked him up &#8211; no one wanted to help. It was very difficult because he&#8217;s a big snake and I managed to hobble down the road with this 18ft python wrapped round me and knocked on the owner&#8217;s door.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another python, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-dorset-54024008\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ellie<\/a>, escaped from her vivarium in Bournemouth and ended up wedging itself under a kitchen door. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters were called in the early hours to free the 3ft reptile using hydraulic equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18ft Burmese python was spotted on the roof of a house in Chandler&#8217;s Ford, Hampshire, after escaping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-538635","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\/538635","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=538635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}