{"id":549639,"date":"2026-04-25T07:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549639\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:26:08","slug":"marwell-zoo-welcomes-its-first-camels-in-eight-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549639\/","title":{"rendered":"Marwell Zoo welcomes its first camels in eight years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To celebrate their arrival, Marwell is offering free entry to the zoo from 25 April to 1 May for anyone named Gary or Lemmy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the pair settle in to their new home, the zoo, near Winchester, said sightings cannot be guaranteed but visitors can see them from the fenceline near the Okapi playground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the zoo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c05d49j4zd4o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">escaped capybara remains at large<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nine-month-old Samba went missing on 17 March, prompting huge search efforts involving thermal drones and a specialist sniffer dog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zoo chief executive Laura Read said on Thursday: &#8220;We just want to bring her back and make sure she&#8217;s safe and well looked after.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To celebrate their arrival, Marwell is offering free entry to the zoo from 25 April to 1 May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-549639","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\/549639","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=549639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}