{"id":340063,"date":"2025-12-28T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340063\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:45:12","slug":"isle-of-wight-rescued-bears-are-thriving-sanctuary-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/340063\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Wight: Rescued bears are &#8216;thriving&#8217;, sanctuary says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve really packed on some pounds, and you can see it in the contrast in the images when we look back,&#8221; said Ms Francis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like different bears, it&#8217;s quite incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly after arriving in June, the bears had smashed up part of their enclosure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Francis said: &#8220;Benji is definitely the naughty one out of the two, he&#8217;s broken and dug things up and been quite adventurous<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So it&#8217;s kept us on our toes, having to repair everything in his wake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Balu on the other hand is much more relaxed, he just sort of chills out in the background.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;They&#8217;ve really packed on some pounds, and you can see it in the contrast in the images when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-340063","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\/340063","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=340063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}