{"id":574447,"date":"2026-05-09T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574447\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:04:09","slug":"bbc-childrens-tv-tapir-finds-new-home-at-newquay-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574447\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Children&#8217;s TV tapir finds new home at Newquay Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A tapir which appeared on children&#8217;s TV has arrived at her new home as part of plans to help protect a threatened species. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tamara the 10-year-old female Brazilian tapir was part of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/m000n1cw\/one-zoo-three\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> CBBC programme One Zoo Three<\/a> which showcases life at Hertfordshire Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her arrival at Newquay Zoo, in Cornwall, on 27 April forms part of an international breeding programme to maintain healthy populations of the vulnerable species across Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dan Trevelyan, head keeper at Newquay Zoo,  said Tamara was a &#8220;lovely, gentle animal&#8221; who was settling in quickly to her new surroundings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tapir which appeared on children&#8217;s TV has arrived at her new home as part of plans to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-574447","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\/574447","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=574447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}