{"id":73457,"date":"2026-08-01T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=73457"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:44:11","slug":"a-whole-lot-cuter-mandai-welcomes-4-capybara-pups-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=73457","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A whole lot cuter&#8217;: Mandai welcomes 4 capybara pups, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>There are four cute additions at Mandai&#8217;s River Wonders.<\/p>\n<p>Four capybara pups were born to mother Luna on July 10, which was also Capybara Appreciation Day, according to a Facebook post by Mandai Wildlife Reserve on Thursday (July 30).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quadruple the joy as things just got a whole lot cuter at Amazonia Encounters, River Wonders!&#8221; the caption said.<\/p>\n<p>The post featured a video of the pups roaming around their new habitat and munching on grass alongside their mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"591\" width=\"267\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1729349484932675%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Luna also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@asiaone\/video\/7594837438531390736?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave birth to two other pups<\/a> on Jan 4, the first to be born at Mandai in a decade, reported The Straits Times.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But only one of them, Ollie, survived and celebrated its 100-day milestone in April.<\/p>\n<p>Capybaras are native to South America and live up to seven years in the wild and 10 years under human care, according to Mandai Wildlife Reserve&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>They are the world&#8217;s largest rodent and a close relative of guinea pigs. Capybara pups are also precocial, which means that they are born with a full coat of fur.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:733828]]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:laili.abdeen@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laili.abdeen@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/4-new-capybara-pups-born-capybara-appreciation-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are four cute additions at Mandai&#8217;s River Wonders. Four capybara pups were born to mother Luna on July 10, which was also Capybara Appreciation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}