{"id":515754,"date":"2026-04-06T11:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515754\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:41:08","slug":"chester-zoo-baby-antelope-dotty-as-big-as-can-of-baked-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515754\/","title":{"rendered":"Chester Zoo baby antelope Dotty as big as can of baked beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the world&#8217;s smallest baby antelopes has taken her first unsteady steps at her Cheshire zoo home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dotty the Kirk&#8217;s dik-dik fawn stands barely taller than a tin of baked beans after being born at Chester Zoo in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She weighed just a a few hundred grams and will reach just 16in (40cm) tall making her one of the smallest antelopes on the planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zoo staff said Dotty had spent the first few weeks of her life in her &#8220;cosy&#8221; den with her mother Chrissy before she finally ventured outside for a walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the world&#8217;s smallest baby antelopes has taken her first unsteady steps at her Cheshire zoo home.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-515754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515754","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=515754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}