{"id":271135,"date":"2025-11-08T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271135\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T13:36:09","slug":"huge-milestone-as-rare-leopard-cub-born-at-dartmoor-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/271135\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Huge milestone&#8217; as rare leopard cub born at Dartmoor Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rare leopard cub has been born in a zoo in a &#8220;huge milestone&#8221; for the critically endangered species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosses at Dartmoor Zoo in Devon announced the successful birth of the Amur leopard cub to parents Lena and Freddo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The species is described as the &#8220;world&#8217;s rarest big cat&#8221; with only an estimated 120 remaining in the wild, and staff said zoological records showed only 15 Amur leopards had been born in captivity worldwide this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The unnamed cub at Dartmoor was born on 29 September, with its birth captured on CCTV, but the arrival was only announced by the zoo this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare leopard cub has been born in a zoo in a &#8220;huge milestone&#8221; for the critically endangered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-271135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}