{"id":408128,"date":"2026-02-04T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408128\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:53:07","slug":"rare-monkeys-loving-new-home-at-the-living-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/408128\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare monkeys &#8216;loving&#8217; new home at The Living Rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Goeldi&#8217;s monkey species is making a return there after almost 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Living Rainforest, which features several rare and endangered species, cared for a pair called Sooty and Meeko in 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They did a breeding programme, they had nine sons,&#8221; Bennett said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Their sons then went on to breed, and then one of their children had Penelope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Penelope, aged four, is one of the new arrivals, and came from Drusillas Zoo in Sussex. She was joined by five-year-old Isabella from Marwell Zoo, near Winchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sooty and Meeko&#8217;s offspring helped populate zoos across the UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sooty lived to be the UK&#8217;s oldest Goeldi&#8217;s monkey at 28-and-a-half years old, and was one of the oldest in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Goeldi&#8217;s monkey species is making a return there after almost 30 years. The Living Rainforest, which features&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-408128","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\/408128","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=408128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}