{"id":459317,"date":"2026-03-05T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459317\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:24:10","slug":"european-brown-bears-at-whipsnade-zoo-wake-up-from-hibernation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459317\/","title":{"rendered":"European brown bears at Whipsnade Zoo wake up from hibernation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four European brown bears at Whipsnade Zoo have been spotted enjoying the spring sunshine, as they shake off their long winter snooze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bears \u2013 named Mana, Minnie, Naya and Cinderella \u2013 have spent the last 3 months hibernating and are slowly getting used to being up and about again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it seems the fluffy foursome can bear-ly keep their eyes open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah McGregor, a manager at the zoo, said: &#8220;They can be quite sluggish when they first wake up, and this year has been no exception &#8211; they&#8217;ve definitely wanted to hit the snooze button a few times!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four European brown bears at Whipsnade Zoo have been spotted enjoying the spring sunshine, as they shake off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-459317","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\/459317","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=459317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}