{"id":569445,"date":"2026-05-06T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:28:08","slug":"orphaned-baby-hippo-bumpy-to-be-hand-reared-by-keepers-at-kenya-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/569445\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphaned baby hippo &#8216;Bumpy&#8217; to be hand-reared by keepers at Kenya sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A baby hippo found desperately nudging its dead mother at a lake in Kenya over the weekend is now being hand-reared at a wildlife sanctuary after being rescued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The calf, which has been named Bumpy, was &#8220;just days old&#8221; when it became orphaned, according to Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a charity whose keepers are now taking care of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), which rescued the calf and handed it over to the wildlife charity for specialised care, said the mother may have died from natural causes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheldrick said it was possible that the hippo&#8217;s mother died in a &#8220;territorial fight&#8230; protecting her calf, as infanticide is common in hippo society&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby hippo found desperately nudging its dead mother at a lake in Kenya over the weekend is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-569445","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\/569445","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=569445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}