{"id":484156,"date":"2026-03-19T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484156\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:47:08","slug":"chester-zoo-monkey-can-hold-its-baby-thanks-to-pioneering-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484156\/","title":{"rendered":"Chester Zoo monkey can hold its baby thanks to pioneering op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlotte Bentley, veterinary officer at the zoo&#8217;s animal health centre, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not every day you take a monkey to vet school. We had to bring everything she might need, from anaesthesia equipment to medications and blankets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Following the scan, we decided an operation was the way forward. She&#8217;s been an absolute trooper all the way through and I&#8217;m just glad we were able to do something for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rachel Burrow, vet and lecturer at the University of Liverpool, added: &#8220;Working with primates is completely different from my usual patients, who are typically cats and dogs, and it was a real privilege to care for such a rare animal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s great to see the surgery was a success &#8211; she&#8217;s comfortable, active and using the limb well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Bentley, veterinary officer at the zoo&#8217;s animal health centre, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not every day you take a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-484156","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\/484156","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=484156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}