{"id":401479,"date":"2026-02-01T00:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/401479\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:27:07","slug":"rare-leopard-cub-zeya-in-first-public-appearance-at-dartmoor-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/401479\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare leopard cub Zeya in first public appearance at Dartmoor Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Devon zoo has revealed its rare Amur leopard cub Zeya to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cub&#8217;s name comes from the River Zeya, in the Amur region of eastern Russia, where the species lives in the wild, said Dartmoor Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zeya, who was born on 29 September to breeding pair Freddo and Lena, is thought to be one of only 15 Amur leopards born in the world in 2025, the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cub is now settling into her on\u2011show enclosure, giving the public its first proper chance to meet her. She is still getting used to her new home, so the zoo is asking visitors to be calm and quiet to help her feel safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Devon zoo has revealed its rare Amur leopard cub Zeya to the public. The cub&#8217;s name comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-401479","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\/401479","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=401479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}