{"id":575011,"date":"2026-05-09T16:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575011\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:34:08","slug":"baby-chimp-sleeps-in-kent-park-owners-bed-after-rejection-by-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575011\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby chimp sleeps in Kent park owner&#8217;s bed after rejection by mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A baby chimpanzee has slept in a wildlife park owner&#8217;s bed for a month after the mammal was rejected by her mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff at Wingham Wildlife Park in Kent have been hand-rearing Jane since she was born in February and documenting her progress on the visitor attraction&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 11-week-old is the third western chimpanzee, a critically endangered species, to be born at the park in the past eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Managing director Tony Binskin said Jane &#8220;was in our bed with us while my wife slept on her back for one month, because the baby chimps sleep on the front&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby chimpanzee has slept in a wildlife park owner&#8217;s bed for a month after the mammal was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-575011","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\/575011","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=575011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}