{"id":254706,"date":"2026-01-27T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254706\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:59:09","slug":"lonely-cornwall-alpaca-cheered-up-with-unlikely-object-while-he-waits-for-new-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254706\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely Cornwall alpaca cheered up with unlikely object while he waits for new friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Park operations director Gary Zammit told the BBC the 18-year-old animal seemed happier after the introduction of the looking glass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe\u2019s been pretty good but it\u2019s even better when he\u2019s got that there so he can see another alpaca as far as he, hopefully, thinks in the paddock with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Sanctuary staff are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Giovanni\u2019s new friends, both donated by a frequent park visitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe would hopefully be looking at picking them up as soon as possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019ve just got to do some planning because obviously you can\u2019t just take animals from anywhere and add them to a collection of this size.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Zammit said while the newest residents will need to be quarantined and tested when they arrive on site, he expects the three alpacas won\u2019t be apart for much longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Park operations director Gary Zammit told the BBC the 18-year-old animal seemed happier after the introduction of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6732,147268,3648,28701,147269,147270,56777,15453,107008,156,2082,1445,692,115837,1362,117,111,139,69,35861,60895,6432,122,810,55113,6123,102],"class_list":["post-254706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-addition","tag-alpaca","tag-animal","tag-awaiting","tag-cheered","tag-companions","tag-cornwall","tag-elderly","tag-enclosure","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-friends","tag-he","tag-lonely","tag-made","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-object","tag-sanctuary","tag-surprising","tag-unlikely","tag-up","tag-waits","tag-while","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}