{"id":243246,"date":"2025-11-04T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243246\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:10:09","slug":"zoo-celebrates-arrival-of-haggis-the-pygmy-hippo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243246\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoo celebrates arrival of Haggis the pygmy hippo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A Kent zoo is celebrating the arrival of its new resident, Haggis the pygmy hippopotamus, who has a worldwide fanbase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The adorable hippo was born in Edinburgh Zoo in October 2024 and arrived at Wingham Wildlife Park on Tuesday after a long trip from Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The wildlife park described her as a &#8220;sassy wee character&#8221;, adding they are the only zoo in the county to have a pygmy hippo, which is an endangered species native to Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A spokesperson for Edinburgh Zoo said they &#8220;missed their pygmy princess but are looking forward to seeing what she gets up to on her next adventure&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kent zoo is celebrating the arrival of its new resident, Haggis the pygmy hippopotamus, who has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-243246","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\/243246","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=243246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}