{"id":32117,"date":"2025-07-30T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32117\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:26:14","slug":"jersey-zoo-reveals-sex-of-baby-sloth-six-months-after-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32117\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey Zoo reveals sex of baby sloth six months after birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Six months might seem like a long time to wait to find out the sex of a baby, but when it comes to sloths things move slowly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">One of Jersey Zoo&#8217;s sloths, Terry, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4gwjpkwevvo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gave birth<\/a> in January but it has taken until late July to determine the baby&#8217;s gender, as the zoo said it was &#8220;not easy&#8221; to sex sloths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It sent a hair follicle to a lab in Germany for a DNA test and with the results back, the zoo has announced it is &#8220;pleased to reveal she is&#8230; a girl&#8221;, and has been named Jemma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The name was picked by some of the zoo&#8217;s supporters, who chose a name &#8220;personal to them&#8221;, the zoo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six months might seem like a long time to wait to find out the sex of a baby,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-32117","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\/32117","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=32117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}