{"id":425550,"date":"2026-02-14T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425550\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:23:07","slug":"lonely-rhea-in-tonbridge-seeks-soulmate-for-valentine-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425550\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonely rhea in Tonbridge seeks soulmate for Valentine Day&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harle explained the reasoning behind the naming of the birds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;We wanted to name the birds using a play on the name rhea, hence we came up with Chris who was named after the late musician. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While Silvia was named after the Roman Goddess, Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus and Remus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harle said they ideally would want Silvia&#8217;s soulmate to move in with him, as travelling to another sanctuary would make Silvia nervous. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She says rheas are native to South America and can live between 10 to 15 years in the wild, and 15 years or more in captivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We hope this Valentine&#8217;s Day will be Silvia&#8217;s year. He had always been with his brother, and he has been on his own since Chris died.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harle explained the reasoning behind the naming of the birds. She said: &#8220;We wanted to name the birds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-425550","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\/425550","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=425550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}