{"id":808140,"date":"2026-10-20T01:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808140\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:58:10","slug":"capybara-pups-at-manx-wildlife-park-draw-record-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808140\/","title":{"rendered":"Capybara pups at Manx wildlife park draw record crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pups&#8217; popularity also directly supported conservation work, she explained, as each visitor contributed \u00a31 to the park&#8217;s conservation fund unless they opted out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Although themselves [capybaras] may not be endangered, they&#8217;ve actually created a lot of extra money this weekend for the conservation fund and spread a lot of joy and oohs and aahs,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fund supports projects locally with Manx Wildlife Trust and internationally, including work in the Pantanal, where wild capybaras live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the pups arrival had lifted spirits at a time when many people were seeking moments of joy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think when there&#8217;s so many just awful things that happen in the world, sometimes these little things just give us a bit of light relief, don&#8217;t they?,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pups&#8217; popularity also directly supported conservation work, she explained, as each visitor contributed \u00a31 to the park&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-808140","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\/808140","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=808140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}