{"id":592347,"date":"2026-05-19T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592347\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:21:09","slug":"howletts-wild-animal-park-welcomes-four-sumatran-tiger-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592347\/","title":{"rendered":"Howletts Wild Animal Park welcomes four Sumatran tiger cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cubs&#8217; mother, Tipah, born in January 2019, is described as &#8220;independent, cheeky and inquisitive&#8221; and has produced one of the largest litters recorded for Sumatran tigers in captivity, the park said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since becoming a mother, keepers said she had settled &#8220;beautifully&#8221; into her new role, and was proving to be &#8220;calm, attentive and content&#8221;, while trusting her keepers to be nearby but not too close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cubs&#8217; father, Nakal, who joined the park in July 2025, was appearing to miss Tipah&#8217;s company since becoming a father and spending time apart during the early weeks, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cubs&#8217; mother, Tipah, born in January 2019, is described as &#8220;independent, cheeky and inquisitive&#8221; and has produced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-592347","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\/592347","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=592347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}