{"id":239230,"date":"2025-11-02T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239230\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:52:08","slug":"adorable-endangered-king-colobus-monkey-born-at-paignton-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239230\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Adorable&#8217; endangered king colobus monkey born at Paignton Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The zoo said keepers intended to name the baby king colobus monkey Limba, in honour of her father Limbali who passed away early in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said Lola and the baby were &#8220;thriving and easily visible to visitors&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The zoo said king colobus infants were born white specifically to help mothers track them, as it was normal behaviour for babies to be passed around within the family group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added: &#8220;The baby will gradually develop the distinctive markings of this rare West African species over approximately six months, transforming into a jet-black coat with white facial fringes and a sweeping white shoulder cape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Populations of the species had plummeted by more than 50% over the past three decades due to habitat loss, hunting, and forest fragmentation, the zoo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The zoo said keepers intended to name the baby king colobus monkey Limba, in honour of her father&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-239230","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\/239230","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=239230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}