{"id":581871,"date":"2026-05-13T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:55:13","slug":"capybara-born-in-scotland-for-first-time-in-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581871\/","title":{"rendered":"Capybara born in Scotland for first time in 18 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capybara pups weigh around 1.5 to 2.5kg when they’re born, but grow very quickly.<\/p>\n

As they develop, they’ll learn lots of things from their herd, including how to bark and squeak in order to communicate.<\/p>\n

And in the next couple of weeks, the zoo have said the baby will have its first health check up, where they’ll find out the gender and give it a name.<\/p>\n

What do you think it should be called? Let us know in the comments below…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Capybara pups weigh around 1.5 to 2.5kg when they’re born, but grow very quickly. As they develop, they’ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-581871","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\/581871","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=581871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}