{"id":431316,"date":"2026-02-18T00:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431316\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:27:07","slug":"twycross-zoo-welcomes-hugely-important-rare-gibbon-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431316\/","title":{"rendered":"Twycross Zoo welcomes &#8216;hugely important&#8217; rare gibbon birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Twycross Zoo has announced the birth of its first animal of the year &#8211; an endangered pileated gibbon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The infant, whose birth was described as &#8220;hugely important&#8221;, was born to parents Valentina and Helmut on Tuesday 3 February 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sex of the baby is not yet known and will only be confirmed once keepers can clearly see, which can take several weeks or even months, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are currently about 47,000 mature pileated gibbons in the wild and the population is decreasing, with a few dozen at zoos in Europe as part of a conservation programme Twycross participates in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twycross Zoo has announced the birth of its first animal of the year &#8211; an endangered pileated gibbon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-431316","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\/431316","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=431316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}