Escaped capybara 'probably living her best life'

The hunt for an escaped capybara which fled a zoo 4 days agone is continuing "around the clock".

Cinnamon fled her situation astatine Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World successful Telford connected Friday and entered woodlands wrong the zoo grounds.

The past sighting of her was connected Saturday, aft she managed to get beyond the perimeter fence.

Zoo proprietor Will Dorrell said helium believes Cinnamon has made it to the Humber Brook river, adjacent the attraction's bluish boundary, wherever "she's astir apt surviving her champion life".

He said Cinnamon was not astatine imminent hazard but they wanted to cognize wherever she was truthful they could bring her backmost to the zoo and reunite her with her family.

"Right other america there's loads of marshland and riverways, that's wherefore we powerfully fishy that she's there," helium said.

"In the chaotic they're fantastic swimmers and they'll unrecorded connected stream banks, past whenever they consciousness threatened they conscionable tally into the h2o and tin enactment successful determination for hours astatine a time."

"We're moving circular the timepiece astatine the infinitesimal trying to find her," helium said.

Capybaras are autochthonal to South America and are the largest surviving rodents successful the world.

Cinnamon was calved astatine the zoo alongside member Churro, and is present astir 1 twelvemonth old.

Mr Dorrell said the brace "stuck together" but that Churro was doing good arsenic their parents inactive unrecorded with them.

"But evidently it would beryllium bully to reunite them," helium said.

Cinnamon has not been spotted since Saturday, wherever she was seen connected Humber Lane.

She was besides spotted connected Friday nighttime via the zoo's way cameras and astir went backmost to her enclosure, but was not adjacent capable for keepers to bash anything.

The nationalist person been urged to study sightings to the zoo, but not to attack her successful fearfulness of scaring her and driving her further way.

"She's precise very tame, she wouldn't wounded anyone, she's conscionable precise apt to beryllium timid," Mr Dorrell said.

"If it goes connected [much] longer, she's not astatine imminent risk. She tin precise comfortably past the weather, adjacent though they similar it a spot warmer, and locally there's loads of nutrient and habitat."

Mr Dorrell besides thanked radical for their enactment and said a unpaid was bringing retired a thermal drone connected Tuesday to assistance with the search.

"Hopefully we'll beryllium capable to get a spot of an thought then," helium said.