{"id":286544,"date":"2025-11-27T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286544\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:10:07","slug":"endangered-giraffe-calf-born-at-whipsnade-after-death-of-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/286544\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered giraffe calf born at Whipsnade after death of father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whipsnade Zoo&#8217;s giraffe herd is now up to five, and includes the calf&#8217;s siblings Myra and Timba, who are being kept separate from her until she is strong enough to venture outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Connor Corrigan, team leader of large hoofstock at Whipsnade Zoo, said: &#8220;The calf is happy, healthy, and very energetic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was on her feet within an hour of being born, and has already been putting those long legs to use by going for exploratory runs around the indoor den.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Luna is a phenomenal mother \u2013 this is her fifth calf, and she&#8217;s very attentive and nurturing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whipsnade Zoo&#8217;s giraffe herd is now up to five, and includes the calf&#8217;s siblings Myra and Timba, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-286544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286544","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=286544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}