{"id":83501,"date":"2025-10-18T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/83501\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:59:08","slug":"intruders-are-distressing-gorillas-says-bristol-zoo-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/83501\/","title":{"rendered":"Intruders are distressing gorillas, says Bristol Zoo Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the zoo said: &#8220;As well as their team of keepers, the gorillas see vets, other zoo staff, students, researchers and zoo supporters throughout each week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When they are moved over to their new African Forest home, we will be gradually introducing visitors to get them used to seeing the general public again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But footage shared in online posts and by some national press have expressed concern the animals appear lonely and abandoned and have been seen &#8220;banging on windows&#8221; at their enclosure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Zoo Project said the posts had led to &#8220;misinformation&#8221; with &#8220;untrue and inflammatory information about the gorillas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Director Hannah Windross told the BBC: &#8220;It&#8217;s distressing I think particularly for the keepers because they spend so much time working with these animals, they love and care for these animals for years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So to see people saying they&#8217;re miserable and they&#8217;re abandoned is just so hurtful when, as a wildlife and conservation charity, the protection of animals is what we exist to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for the zoo said: &#8220;As well as their team of keepers, the gorillas see vets, other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-83501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83501","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=83501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}