{"id":379030,"date":"2026-04-02T23:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379030\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:30:16","slug":"corks-fota-presents-newly-named-cheetah-cubs-nuru-and-nia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379030\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork&#8217;s Fota presents newly-named cheetah cubs Nuru and Nia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Fota Wildlife Park is delighted to announce that its two endangered Northern cheetah cubs have been named Nia and Nuru, following a public naming competition that attracted over 1,000 entries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The names, meaning \u2018purpose\u2019 and \u2018light\u2019 in Swahili, were selected for the cubs, who were born last November 24 to mother, Florence, and father, Nawab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Acting lead ranger John Leahy said: \u201cWe were thrilled with the level of engagement from the public in helping us name these cubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cThe names were selected to honour the cheetahs\u2019 African heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The cubs, along with their mother, Florence, are now in the cheetah habitat near the park\u2019s main entrance, where they have settled in well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Now over four months old, Nia and Nuru are growing in strength and confidence, regularly seen exploring their surroundings, playfully interacting with one another and their mum, and delighting visitors to the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fota Wildlife Park is delighted to announce that its two endangered Northern cheetah cubs have been named Nia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[79,51382,61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-379030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-fota-wildlife-park","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}