{"id":959003,"date":"2026-05-14T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959003\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:46:33","slug":"capybara-born-in-scotland-for-first-time-in-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/959003\/","title":{"rendered":"Capybara born in Scotland for first time in 18 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Capybara pups weigh around 1.5 to 2.5kg when they&#8217;re born, but grow very quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As they develop, they&#8217;ll learn lots of things from their herd, including how to bark and squeak in order to communicate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And in the next couple of weeks, the zoo have said the baby will have its first health check up, where they&#8217;ll find out the gender and give it a name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">What do you think it should be called? <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/cq5p45y9vl4o#comments\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Let us know in the comments below&#8230;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Capybara pups weigh around 1.5 to 2.5kg when they&#8217;re born, but grow very quickly. As they develop, they&#8217;ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-959003","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116572296801202750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959003","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=959003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}