{"id":223358,"date":"2025-10-24T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223358\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:05:07","slug":"baby-gorilla-venus-enjoys-spooky-halloween-pumpkin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/223358\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby gorilla Venus enjoys ‘spooky’ Halloween pumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A baby gorilla at London Zoo has started the Halloween festivities early by tucking into a “spooky” pumpkin.<\/p>\n

Venus, who is one year and eight months old, was treated to carved pumpkins stuffed with pulses alongside other western lowland gorillas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While silverback gorilla Kiburi<\/a> got to the pumpkins first, baby Venus showed a “great enterprising spirit,” according to the zoo, and munched into the Halloween treats under the watchful eye of her mother Effie.<\/p>\n

Daniel Simmonds, zoological operations manager at London Zoo, said: “We wanted to make sure the animals didn’t miss out on the fun.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby gorilla at London Zoo has started the Halloween festivities early by tucking into a “spooky” pumpkin.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-223358","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\/223358","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=223358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}