{"id":466681,"date":"2026-03-09T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466681\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:04:07","slug":"sloth-to-leave-jersey-in-bid-to-mate-with-male-in-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/466681\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloth to leave Jersey in bid to mate with male in Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A sloth born in Jersey will be heading to a zoo in Hampshire to help boost its species, zoo staff say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Linnaeus&#8217;s two-toed sloth Jemma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2mjmzx3k0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who was born at Jersey Zoo in January 2025<\/a>, will leave the island at the end of March after a European breeding co-ordinator said a perfect match had been found for her &#8211; a male sloth called Santos at Marwell Zoo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey Zoo said it had always hoped she would &#8220;go on to breed and help bolster the captive population of this species&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her parents were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cv2p2d83reko\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first sloths introduced at the zoo in November 2022<\/a> as part of a European breeding programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sloth born in Jersey will be heading to a zoo in Hampshire to help boost its species,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-466681","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\/466681","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=466681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}