{"id":288059,"date":"2025-11-28T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288059\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:24:08","slug":"jersey-zoo-welcomes-rockstar-of-lemur-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288059\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey Zoo welcomes &#8216;rockstar of lemur world&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A critically endangered type of lemur has arrived at a zoo, making it only the tenth wildlife park in the world to hold the species. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT), in Jersey, said a three-year-old male greater bamboo lemur, called Orsa, had arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said he used to live at Cotswold Wildlife Park, and the zoo had been selected as a place to safeguard and hopefully breed the species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Georgia Gotts, deputy curator of mammals at Jersey Zoo, said: &#8220;Greater bamboo lemurs are like the rockstars of the lemur world, due to them being incredibly rare, full of character, and adored by everyone who meets them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A critically endangered type of lemur has arrived at a zoo, making it only the tenth wildlife park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-288059","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\/288059","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=288059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}