{"id":90204,"date":"2025-10-20T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90204\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:47:08","slug":"birth-of-mountain-bongo-at-woburn-win-for-global-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/90204\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of mountain bongo at Woburn &#8216;win for global conservation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another male calf was born at Woburn in May this year, to first-time mother Odongo and father Sonny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head of section Tom Robson, who monitored the birth because of challenges during Djembe&#8217;s birth, said: &#8220;This is Othaya&#8217;s second calf, and she struggled giving birth to her first one, so we checked her frequently throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Thankfully all was well and we&#8217;re happy to see a strong-looking calf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Othaya struggled to feed the new arrival at first, so we provided a supplement, but now mum is doing a great job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As it&#8217;s a female calf she will hopefully go on to breed in the future and play a part in the survival of the bongo species.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another male calf was born at Woburn in May this year, to first-time mother Odongo and father Sonny.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-90204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90204","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=90204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}