{"id":298376,"date":"2026-02-19T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:08:08","slug":"colchester-zoo-celebrates-birth-of-endangered-pileated-gibbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298376\/","title":{"rendered":"Colchester zoo celebrates birth of endangered pileated gibbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The birth of a pileated gibbon was &#8220;great news for the conservation of the species&#8221;, said a zoo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Staff at Colchester Zoological Society in Essex discovered the new arrival in the early hours of 2 February and said the baby and parents, Qiwen and Lae, were doing well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The last pileated gibbon, which is an endangered species due to its loss of habitat to farmland across South East Asia, had been born at the zoo in 2013. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Emma Rasey, a team leader at the zoo, said: &#8220;Ever since Qiwen arrived, her and Lae had such a bond. It is still early days, but we are feeling very positive with how Qiwen and Lae are carrying out their parental duties.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The birth of a pileated gibbon was &#8220;great news for the conservation of the species&#8221;, said a zoo.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-298376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}