{"id":158501,"date":"2025-09-25T00:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158501\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:14:12","slug":"africa-alive-announces-arrival-of-new-bat-eared-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158501\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Alive announces arrival of new bat-eared fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Kessingland zoo has welcomed Vysok\u00e9, a four-year-old bat-eared fox from Bratislava Zoo in Slovakia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She has joined Africa Alive&#8217;s male fox, Vuko, who is five years old, as part of the European Breeding Programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for the zoo said: &#8220;We&#8217;re hoping in the future that we&#8217;re going to get some lovely pups from these guys, also known as kits or pups.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the wild, bat-eared foxes can be found in southern and eastern Africa, across arid regions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25486692.thetford-forest-named-best-place-uk-see-autumn-colour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Thetford Forest named among best places to visit in the UK this autumn<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Insects make up around 80pc of their diet, and they particularly enjoy munching on termites, mealworms and crickets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In their habitat at Africa Alive, the foxes can be spotted digging tunnels and &#8220;really taking an interest in the insects&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Bat-eared foxes are found in the wild in Africa(Image: Africa Alive)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The bat-eared fox enclosure will undergo some updates as keepers work to create the perfect habitat for the foxes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While the breed is not considered rare, its numbers in the wild are being negatively impacted by human activity, including hunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kessingland zoo has welcomed Vysok\u00e9, a four-year-old bat-eared fox from Bratislava Zoo in Slovakia. She has joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-158501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}