{"id":945793,"date":"2026-05-08T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:43:15","slug":"bite-marks-clue-in-search-for-escaped-marwell-zoo-capybara-samba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945793\/","title":{"rendered":"Bite marks clue in search for escaped Marwell Zoo capybara Samba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;We&#8217;ve received many possible sightings, but without photos or video, it has been difficult to confirm whether these reports are Samba or muntjac deer which can look very similar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Five days after her escape, Samba was seen resting in the sunshine at the side of a river near the zoo by a dog walker who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cx29yz88pv7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">captured phone footage<\/a> as she jumped in the water and swam off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Samba and her sister, Tango, arrived at the zoo on 16 March after being transferred from Suffolk, but both escaped the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tango was found close to the pair&#8217;s temporary enclosure at the zoo and was swiftly retrieved but her sibling &#8211; described as the &#8220;more adventurous&#8221; of the pair &#8211; has been at large ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marwell Wildlife added that Tango &#8220;has been enjoying the warmer weather, often seen relaxing in the sun and napping in her hay&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It added: &#8220;We&#8217;ve received many possible sightings, but without photos or video, it has been difficult to confirm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-945793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}