{"id":539648,"date":"2026-03-23T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539648\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:23:08","slug":"marwell-zoos-escaped-capybara-spotted-by-a-dog-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539648\/","title":{"rendered":"Marwell Zoo&#8217;s escaped capybara spotted by a dog walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A capybara that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgw21v3jmzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the run since Tuesday<\/a> after escaping from a zoo has been seen resting in the sunshine at the side of a river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nine-month-old Samba slipped through a small gap in a temporary enclosure at Marwell Zoo, near Winchester, a day after arriving from Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People living nearby have been checking gardens, ponds, pools and outbuildings after reported sightings of the animal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Sunday, Claudie Paddick spotted the capybara by the side of the River Itchen, near Winchester, before it was spooked by her dog, jumped in the water and swam off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claudie said she had updated Marwell Zoo, which was sending teams down to the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an update on Saturday, the zoo thanked everyone for their support and said its search for Samba had continued with the help of a specialist dog unit, which had been following her scent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;This has led us to a reduced search area, not far from where she was originally sighted, which has meant we could better deploy thermal drones to try and locate her.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the team remained &#8220;determined to do everything we can to bring Samba home safely&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A capybara that has been on the run since Tuesday after escaping from a zoo has been seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-539648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}