{"id":423619,"date":"2026-02-13T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423619\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:02:07","slug":"rare-monkey-with-orange-hair-born-at-whipsnade-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423619\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare monkey with orange hair born at Whipsnade Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson said that Nguyen was an experienced mother, having given birth to male Bao in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the same year, another baby Francois&#8217; langur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68426516\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was born to mum Lulu at Whipsnade Zoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They live in matriarchal groups and engage in allomothering and allosuckling, where all of the female members lend a hand in caring for the infants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This means their groups have really deep social bonds and it allows older siblings to learn important social skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robinson continued: &#8220;Over time, the newborn&#8217;s hair will fade to black, so I&#8217;d definitely recommend coming to see him in his home at Monkey Forest whilst he&#8217;s still tangerine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">ZSL, the conservation charity behind Whipsnade Zoo, works across the world to tackle the illegal wildlife trade, including in Thailand \u2013 considered to be the largest transport point for the illegal wildlife trade in Southeast Asia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robinson said that Nguyen was an experienced mother, having given birth to male Bao in 2024. In the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-423619","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\/423619","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=423619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}