{"id":388553,"date":"2026-01-24T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388553\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:14:08","slug":"giraffe-calf-is-safari-parks-first-baby-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388553\/","title":{"rendered":"Giraffe calf is safari park&#8217;s first baby of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Northern giraffe calf has been born at West Midlands Safari Park in England \u2013 making it the park&#8217;s first baby of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s already six feet tall, and took its first wobbly steps just 40 minutes after it was born on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its birth is great news for the park. Northern giraffes are listed as vulnerable to extinction on the International Union for Conservation of Nature&#8217;s Red List, which means that they face a high risk of extinction in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keepers says they are &#8220;over the moon&#8221; about the cute new arrival and say the calf and mum, Arusha, are both doing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Northern giraffe calf has been born at West Midlands Safari Park in England \u2013 making it the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-388553","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\/388553","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=388553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}