{"id":486818,"date":"2026-03-21T01:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486818\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T01:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:30:19","slug":"roloway-monkey-gives-birth-months-after-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486818\/","title":{"rendered":"Roloway monkey gives birth months after surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lagertha&#8217;s arrival is particularly special as her mum, Masaya, had to have a complicated operation for a foot injury just months before she gave birth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luckily, her surgery was a success and keepers at the zoo say she&#8217;s been looking after Lagertha &#8220;magnificently&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Masaya is very important &#8211; not just to her family, but to her whole species. There are only a few breeding females in zoos in Europe,&#8221; zookeeper Zoe Edwards explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that little Lagertha, who was named after a Viking queen, is &#8220;already curious&#8221; about her habitat and &#8220;inquisitive&#8221; about humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lagertha&#8217;s arrival is particularly special as her mum, Masaya, had to have a complicated operation for a foot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-486818","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\/486818","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=486818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}