{"id":188534,"date":"2025-10-09T17:20:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188534\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:20:03","slug":"boki-the-bear-gets-mice-cake-to-celebrate-brain-surgery-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188534\/","title":{"rendered":"Boki the bear gets mice cake to celebrate brain surgery milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boki was the first brown bear ever to be diagnosed with hydrocephalus and undergo brain surgery, according to Mr Forde. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He called the operation a &#8220;success&#8221;, with the three-year-old now climbing trees, going swimming and playing with his bear mates, Fluff and Scruff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the next few days, Boki will enter torpor and sleep until spring. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He pretty much won&#8217;t eat till March next year,&#8221; added Wildwood director general, Paul Whitfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boki was the first brown bear ever to be diagnosed with hydrocephalus and undergo brain surgery, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-188534","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\/188534","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=188534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}