Winnipeg’s newest baby gibbon officially has a name.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last week, Winnipeggers were asked to help choose a name for the baby, who was born to his mother,\u00a0Maya, on July 23, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Four names to choose from<\/p>\n
\u00a0The Assiniboine Park Zoo offered four different names for the public to choose from, including:<\/p>\n
\n\tTaman, which means garden or park
\n\tZahir, which means bright, luminous, or helper
\n\tKien, which means strong, firm or brave
\n\tSuwanto, which means golden or precious
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Winnipeggers choose Suwanto<\/p>\n
In the end, Winnipeggers went with Suwanto, which is associated with qualities such as goodness, purity, and value.<\/p>\n
“Thank you to everyone who voted,” wrote the Assiniboine Park Zoo in a social post.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Suwanto settling in with mom Maya<\/p>\n
Suwanto is almost a month old now, and the animal care and veterinary teams continue to monitor the family closely while\u00a0taking a hands-off approach, allowing Mom Maya to take the lead in caring for her little one.<\/p>\n
“You can visit the gibbon family at the zoo!” wrote the Assiniboine Park Zoo. “We promise Suwanto is even cuter in person.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg’s newest baby gibbon officially has a name.\u00a0 Last week, Winnipeggers were asked to help choose a name…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-862760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}