{"id":578232,"date":"2026-04-11T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578232\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:47:14","slug":"watch-central-american-rodent-found-wandering-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/578232\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Central American rodent found wandering in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>April 10 (UPI) &#8212; A woman jogging in Rybnik, Poland, contacted authorities when she spotted an agouti &#8212; a Central American rodent resembling a large guinea pig.<\/p>\n<p>Rybnik Forestry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NadlesnictwoRybnik\/posts\/pfbid0d1dJtXEvsKos8VoNk4YtbV7FyX35FUqwJWXSSVQMbzdYMEvg5p2kGWG8Mf6eTW63l?__cft__[0]=AZaK16Od7u8nhfuhnzjEoWQSolNjWYBDsf0McwHofas20R_oQYFZYK12OUHtvDxJKe1xRx9XVHGDVpFDX-a2PLOQpynYsx-PB2dFQsoW6NfV6VsOi3XGZWUmFR48anUjjaRfDciHSQ_9EcXXvIKrQ7sEqrovhnHLJoiiHUb3Mt9sAz8g73XvCVqrwvwIP-TdPEI&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">officials said the<\/a> woman called authorities in late March to report spotting the agouti in a wooded area.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard all kinds of unusual reports from callers, but then she sent a photo,&#8221; Rybnik Forestry spokesperson Kacper Paturej <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio90.pl\/zwierze-z-ameryki-poludniowej-w-rybnickim-lesie-w-gotartowicach-widziany-byl-aguti-co-to-za-czworonog.html#gsc.tab=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Radio 90.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paturej said initial capture efforts had to be called off when the cat-sized agouti became aggressive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The animal was later wrangled by experts from a wildlife rehabilitation center. Paturej said the agouti is currently being cared for at the center.<\/p>\n<p>The rodent is believed to have escaped from a local private enclosure. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 10 (UPI) &#8212; A woman jogging in Rybnik, Poland, contacted authorities when she spotted an agouti &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-578232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-odd","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-weird","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578232","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=578232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}