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Stop that capybara! Search party uses drone to spot rodent that fled British zoo
Cinnamon, a one-year-old female, escaped on Friday and has eluded inventive efforts to recapture her
To catch a rat, many call pest control. But how does one go about catching the world’s largest rodent, the capybara?
Zookeepers in Shropshire are wrestling with that very problem after Cinnamon, one of the furry breed native to South America, escaped.
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