{"id":773491,"date":"2026-09-17T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773491\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:48:10","slug":"six-months-of-searching-for-samba-the-missing-capybara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773491\/","title":{"rendered":"Six months of searching for Samba the missing capybara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Samba&#8217;s plight not only made local news, it sparked interest from stations across the world, which soon picked up on the story of the capybarra on the run. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1909217536434242\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 7&#8217;s Sunrise, external<\/a> hosts discussed the search at length, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/giant-rodent-on-the-run-in-england\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News Chicago, external<\/a> reported on the capybara &#8220;missing in the village of Hampshire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Social media also joined in with AI memes of Samba in all kinds of scenarios &#8211; from hairdressers to pubs, airports to ferries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But despite all the publicity, suspected sightings and painstaking searching through the Hampshire countryside, Samba remains at large.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The zoo&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marwell.org.uk\/samba-update\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is still appealing, external<\/a> for anyone who spots Samba to take a picture and share it, along with the exact location, to help with efforts to track her down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samba&#8217;s plight not only made local news, it sparked interest from stations across the world, which soon picked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-773491","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\/773491","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=773491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}