{"id":390258,"date":"2026-01-25T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390258\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:00:15","slug":"baby-chimp-doing-really-well-at-colchester-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/390258\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby chimp doing &#8216;really well&#8217; at Colchester Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A zoo said a newborn chimpanzee was doing &#8220;really well&#8221; under the care of its mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">First-time mum Kora gave birth to the healthy baby at Colchester Zoo in Essex on 17 January, though keepers said it was too early to identify the offspring&#8217;s gender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Keeper Lizzy Gell said: &#8220;They&#8217;re doing really well, really close to mum and will be for quite a while now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s super exciting to have a youngster here at the zoo, it&#8217;s been such a long time, we&#8217;re really all excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It is the first chimpanzee born at the zoo since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A zoo said a newborn chimpanzee was doing &#8220;really well&#8221; under the care of its mother. First-time mum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-390258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390258","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=390258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}