After weeks of setting up baits, hiding behind bushes, and patiently waiting, High Park Zoo staff finally captured one of their fugitive capybaras Sunday evening.

Another still remains at large.

“It is resting off-site for now and we will have more updates later,” said a spokesperson with High Park Zoo. “It was a team effort with parks staff, Toronto Wildlife Centre and volunteers.”

The capybara was caught at about 7 p.m., said Ben Lovatt, one of the volunteers who had been tracking the animals all last week and helped with the capture.

“The night was relatively good for capture,” said Lovatt. “It was shockingly simple after all the work we’ve done, but we managed to track her down.”

A large cage provided by the Toronto Wildlife Centre was pointed in the direction of where the fugitive capybara was hanging out, Lovatt said. As the trackers began to walk away from it, the capybara walked right in.

High Park officials are still tracking the second capybara.

The city set up a large barrier Saturday night around a part of the park where the capybara had been spotted, after bystanders scared the South American rodent away, according to Lovatt. The barrier will make it easier to capture the second one.

“It’s an observation game,” said Lovatt.

Trackers have familiarized themselves with the sleeping and eating habits of the capybara and hope to capture it soon.

Emma Renda was taking a jog in High Park when she spotted six people huddled near the pond, and captured a video showing the trackers hopping over a fence towards the fugitive rodent, which made its grand escape early on May 24.

Since then, the hunt for the capybaras, a member of the world’s largest rodent species, has captured the imagination of the city, with hundreds of reported sightings coming in to city hotlines — some in areas far from High Park.