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A female capybara that has been missing for nearly two weeks has become a social media sensation.
Nine-month-old Samba escaped from England’s Marwell Zoo on March 16, and although she’s been reportedly spotted frequenting a pub and sunbathing on a riverbank, she’s still managed to evade capture.
As a result of the animal’s shenanigans, fans have created AI-generated images on social media of the critter engaged in different local activities, like shopping at the mall, getting pampered at a hair salon and enjoying a soccer game.
The search for Samba is so intense that a team of dogs and drones have been dispatched to help find the brazen capybara, whose species — the largest rodents in the world and known for being fast runners, reaching speeds of up to 22 mph.
“We have deployed search teams including the use of specialist dog units used to track her scent, and thermal drones,” Laura Read, chief executive at the zoo, told The Guardian.
Less than 24 hours after Samba arrived at the Hampshire zoo with its sibling Tango, the pair both made a run for it through a hole in their temporary enclosure.
Tango was quickly found, but Samba is still on the loose.
The zoo is in a rush to find the creature because it’s worried about the separation of the infant sisters.
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Two days after she escaped, Samba was reportedly spotted at a beer garden called Ship Inn in Owslebury, about two miles from the zoo.
“It’s been proper crazy,” Emma Smith, manager of the Ship Inn Smith told the outlet.
“It’s just a little village, you know?”
Samba was also filmed sunbathing on the banks of River Itchen and then going in for a dip by a woman walking her dogs in the area.
“It was bonkers,” the dog walker, Claudie Paddick, told the outlet.
“I didn’t even know what a capybara was.”





