{"id":685960,"date":"2026-07-11T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685960\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:54:09","slug":"longleat-safari-parks-only-two-capybaras-become-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685960\/","title":{"rendered":"Longleat Safari Park&#8217;s only two Capybaras become a family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A safari park&#8217;s only pair of Capybaras have become a family and welcomed two new pups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Longleat, in Wiltshire, said the newborn pups and their mother Mildred, are settling in a purpose-built nursery area with a private pool at the safari park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capybaras are the largest species of rodent and are semi-aquatic, meaning they live partly on land and partly in water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Longleat spokesperson said it is &#8220;early days&#8221; to determine the sex of the pups, and they are yet to be named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pups were born weighing 1kg each, and when fully grown Capaybaras can typically reach between 35kg and 66kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A safari park&#8217;s only pair of Capybaras have become a family and welcomed two new pups. Longleat, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-685960","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\/685960","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=685960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}