{"id":363962,"date":"2026-01-11T05:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363962\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:53:10","slug":"heartwarming-video-of-longleat-animals-on-icy-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/363962\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartwarming video of Longleat animals on icy pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The recent cold snap has seen many of the animals living at Longleat exploring their changing habitats, none more so than the residents of Half Mile Pond.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The raft of Californian sea lions has been swimming beneath the icy surface, before popping their heads up to break through the sheets of ice and reach the surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Animals at one of the county\u2019s premier tourist destinations have been skating on thin ice at the Wiltshire estate. (Image: Longleat)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  These behaviours are examples of their natural instincts, as in the wild this species\u2019 range reaches the icy waters of the Alaskan coast.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In Jungle Kingdom, a pair of Asian short-clawed otters have been walking on their usual stream, as well as playing with chunks of ice in their characteristic finger-like digits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Animals at one of the county\u2019s premier tourist destinations have been skating on thin ice at the Wiltshire estate. (Image: Longleat)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While Asian short-clawed otters wouldn\u2019t usually experience freezing temperatures, keepers are constantly monitoring all species to ensure normal behaviours, with animals always having the option to warm up inside their houses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Animals at one of the county\u2019s premier tourist destinations have been skating on thin ice at the Wiltshire estate. (Image: Longleat)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent cold snap has seen many of the animals living at Longleat exploring their changing habitats, none&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-363962","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\/363962","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=363962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}