{"id":572645,"date":"2026-05-08T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572645\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:00:17","slug":"bite-marks-clue-in-search-for-escaped-marwell-zoo-capybara-samba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572645\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite marks clue in search for escaped Marwell Zoo capybara Samba"},"content":{"rendered":"

It added: “We’ve received many possible sightings, but without photos or video, it has been difficult to confirm whether these reports are Samba or muntjac deer which can look very similar.”<\/p>\n

Five days after her escape, Samba was seen resting in the sunshine at the side of a river near the zoo by a dog walker who captured phone footage<\/a> as she jumped in the water and swam off.<\/p>\n

Samba and her sister, Tango, arrived at the zoo on 16 March after being transferred from Suffolk, but both escaped the following day.<\/p>\n

Tango was found close to the pair’s temporary enclosure at the zoo and was swiftly retrieved but her sibling – described as the “more adventurous” of the pair – has been at large ever since.<\/p>\n

Marwell Wildlife added that Tango “has been enjoying the warmer weather, often seen relaxing in the sun and napping in her hay”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It added: “We’ve received many possible sightings, but without photos or video, it has been difficult to confirm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-572645","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\/572645","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=572645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}