{"id":530597,"date":"2026-04-14T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:47:20","slug":"endangered-aye-aye-finds-home-at-africa-alive-near-lowestoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530597\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered aye-aye finds home at Africa Alive near Lowestoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Zanvie, a female aye-aye, is settling into her new home at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25966017.kaya-lioness-dies-africa-alive-zoo-near-lowestoft\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Africa Alive in Kessingland<\/a> after travelling from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in Jersey.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Aye-ayes are native only to Madagascar and are classed as endangered on the IUCN Red List.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They face an uncertain future due to habitat loss and human persecution, with only around 1,000 to 10,000 believed to be left in the wild.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Aye-ayes are one of my favourite Madagascan animals,&#8221; Sara Goatcher, head of conservation education at Africa Alive, said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Their unique, and sometimes weird, adaptations make them a perfect ambassador for educating visiting schools and groups about the wonderful wildlife of Madagascar and the amazing ways that animals have evolved to survive in the wild.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Known for their ever-growing incisors and large, sensitive ears, the animals use percussive foraging to find food, tapping on wood with their elongated middle finger to locate insects under tree bark.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Already making herself at home, Zanvie has been busily settling in and can be seen in the nocturnal house at Africa Alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zanvie, a female aye-aye, is settling into her new home at Africa Alive in Kessingland after travelling from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-530597","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\/530597","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=530597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}