Telford zoo capybara finally captured after a week on the run and 'living her best life'

The 1 twelvemonth aged capybara, named Cinnamon, escaped from Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World successful Telford connected Saturday and was yet captured connected Friday by a squad of "over a twelve experts"

A capybara which escaped from a Shropshire zoo has been captured harmless and good aft spending astir a week astatine large.

One-year-old Cinnamon escaped from Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World successful Telford connected Saturday and was recovered surviving successful a tract adjacent to the zoo by a hunt squad connected Tuesday night. She was yet captured connected Friday by a squad of "over a twelve experts" successful a pond wrong the zoo's woodland conservation area.

A video shared by the zoo connected societal media showed the fugitive rodent being hauled from the h2o successful a metallic cage. Cinnamon has since returned to an enclosure with her duplicate brother, Churro, and is acclimatising to beingness backmost successful captivity.

Expert keepers volition proceed to show her astir the timepiece to guarantee a "seamless modulation backmost to household life", the zoo said. The zoo besides announced that Cinnamon volition stay disconnected amusement to the nationalist this play arsenic she re-familiarises herself with her accustomed surroundings.

Capybaras, which tin turn to beryllium 4.6ft agelong and up to 2ft high, are semi-aquatic and adapted for beingness successful water. On Thursday, the zoo said attempts to seizure Cinnamon had been paused truthful she did not go stressed.

Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World proprietor Will Dorrell said: "We're perfectly delighted to person Cinnamon backmost astatine the zoo. We've been astounded astatine the nationalist absorption to Cinnamon's flight and are truthful grateful to everybody who has helped to instrumentality her safely to the zoo."

"Cinnamon volition beryllium spending immoderate clip with her member successful an off-show enclosure this weekend, but each being good we anticipation that Cinnamon volition instrumentality to her accustomed paddock with the remainder of her household adjacent week."

Keepers were moving done the nighttime connected Wednesday to effort to drawback her, but said the country wherever she was surviving was "extremely dense" with "almost impenetrable" undergrowth.

She was spotted by a thermal drone wrong 5 metres of the spot she was seen connected Tuesday night, and keepers recovered caller tracks and capybara poo.

"I cognize that determination volition beryllium tons of radical who volition beryllium precise excited to spot her, but cipher much truthful than her ain mum and dad," Mr Dorrell added.

Mr Dorrell was antecedently asked however helium believes Cinnamon was doing retired of the zoo connected her own, and helium thought she's "probably surviving her champion life".

He said: "The area, unluckily for us, wherever the zoo is, there's tons of watercourses, tons of food, each the things that capybaras emotion to devour and they emotion to swim."

"They're comparatively hardy animals, (we've got) perfectly nary payment concerns astir her, she's going to beryllium retired determination loving it, but we'd alternatively person her backmost truthful we tin marque definite she's ok."