{"id":86630,"date":"2025-08-21T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86630\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:34:07","slug":"rescued-baby-gorilla-zeytin-recovers-from-smuggling-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/86630\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued baby gorilla Zeytin recovers from smuggling ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A baby gorilla, rescued last year from a plane&#8217;s shipping container at Istanbul airport, may soon be returned to his native Nigeria. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The infant &#8211; named Zeytin in a public competition &#8211; was cared for at Turkey&#8217;s Polonezkoy Zoo while he underwent rehabilitation following his ordeal at the hands of smugglers. Zeytin has gained weight and grown taller since he was found in December. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Turkish authorities are seeking assurances from Nigeria that Zeytin will not be in danger from illegal traders when he returns to the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby gorilla, rescued last year from a plane&#8217;s shipping container at Istanbul airport, may soon be returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-86630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86630","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=86630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}