Samba the escaped capybara is caught on camera, seven months after leaving an English zoo
A missing-rodent saga with a following: the zoo explains why it is going slowly and keeping her location secret.
Samba, a one-year-old capybara who escaped her temporary enclosure at Marwell Zoo near Winchester, Hampshire, on 17 March, less than a day after arriving, has been filmed for the first time in months, LBC reports. Her sister Tango was recaptured quickly.
Samba was last seen in August. Grainy footage from wildlife cameras, captured on private land earlier this month, gave keepers further evidence of where she is. The zoo, which has also used thermal drones and camera traps, called the recovery "a gradual and carefully managed process" and said frightening her could make her harder to catch. It is keeping her exact location confidential.
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Capybara
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The world's largest living rodent, a semiaquatic grass-eater native to South America that lives near fresh water.
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