{"id":577723,"date":"2026-05-11T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577723\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:32:09","slug":"bumpy-the-hippo-rescued-by-keepers-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/577723\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumpy the hippo rescued by keepers in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meet Bumpy, a hippo calf being looked after by keepers in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The orphan is being looked after by the charity Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, who are experts in looking after animals like hippos and rhinos, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keepers are bottle-feeding him and giving him lots of love and attention until he&#8217;s strong enough to be released back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He is a very snuggly creature and is happiest when nestled on or against someone,&#8221; the sanctuary said &#8211; from the photos, it&#8217;s clear to see that Bumpy loves a cuddle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet Bumpy, a hippo calf being looked after by keepers in Kenya. The orphan is being looked after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-577723","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\/577723","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=577723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}