{"id":432846,"date":"2026-02-18T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432846\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:02:08","slug":"colchester-zoo-celebrates-birth-of-endangered-pileated-gibbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432846\/","title":{"rendered":"Colchester zoo celebrates birth of endangered pileated gibbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The birth of a pileated gibbon was &#8220;great news for the conservation of the species&#8221;, said a zoo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff at Colchester Zoological Society in Essex discovered the new arrival in the early hours of 2 February and said the baby and parents, Qiwen and Lae, were doing well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last pileated gibbon, which is an endangered species due to its loss of habitat to farmland across South East Asia, had been born at the zoo in 2013. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emma Rasey, a team leader at the zoo, said: &#8220;Ever since Qiwen arrived, her and Lae had such a bond. It is still early days, but we are feeling very positive with how Qiwen and Lae are carrying out their parental duties.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow Essex news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjdqpb\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCEssex\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook, external<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcessex\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram, external<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCessex\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The birth of a pileated gibbon was &#8220;great news for the conservation of the species&#8221;, said a zoo.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-432846","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\/432846","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=432846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}