{"id":549985,"date":"2026-04-25T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549985\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:42:15","slug":"black-footed-penguins-hatch-at-banham-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/549985\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-footed penguins hatch at Banham Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophie Imhof, Team Leader of Birds at Banham Zoo, says its &#8220;brilliant&#8221; to see both chicks doing so well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added they seem to be settling in well with their parents Kanene and Smithson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every hatch really matters for this species, as they are a critically endangered species with species numbers dropping 90% in the last century,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For now, Twix and Twirl are staying tucked up in the nest, exactly where they should be. But we look forward to seeing them adventure out in the coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Imhof, Team Leader of Birds at Banham Zoo, says its &#8220;brilliant&#8221; to see both chicks doing so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-549985","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\/549985","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=549985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}