{"id":399021,"date":"2026-01-30T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:10:07","slug":"fennic-fox-called-pinky-gets-new-home-at-colchester-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399021\/","title":{"rendered":"Fennic fox called Pinky gets new home at Colchester Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Video showed fennec fox Pinky at her new home in Essex, where she is part of a conservation programme to ensure their long-term sustainability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The female has moved to Colchester Zoological Society (CZS) from Longleat Safari Park to join the zoo&#8217;s resident male, Otis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Known as the smallest fox in the world, a fully grown fennec fox weighs only 1.5kg (2.2lb) and is between 24 and 41cm (nine to 16in) in length, compared with the British red fox, which weighs around 5kg (11lb). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fennec foxes, native to the Sahara Desert, are currently listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, but were at risk from the illegal pet trade and were often captured for exhibition purposes, said CZS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow Essex news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjdqpb\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCEssex\/\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook, external<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcessex\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram, external<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCessex\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video showed fennec fox Pinky at her new home in Essex, where she is part of a conservation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-399021","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\/399021","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=399021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}