{"id":237878,"date":"2025-11-01T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237878\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T13:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:38:04","slug":"cotswold-wildlife-park-welcomes-white-rhino-calf-markus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/237878\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotswold Wildlife Park welcomes white rhino calf Markus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A wildlife park has welcomed a baby white rhino in the &#8220;only birth of its kind in the UK in 2025&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Markus is now part of a group of eight rhinos, known as a crash, at the park and is the 12th calf to be born there in the space of 12 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cotswold Wildlife Park, in Oxfordshire, said Markus was the only white rhino born in the UK this year, adding that the event was caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the calf was healthy and nursing well from his mother Nancy, who has had seven calves with breeding male Monty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife park has welcomed a baby white rhino in the &#8220;only birth of its kind in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-237878","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\/237878","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=237878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}