{"id":596534,"date":"2026-05-21T17:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596534\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:37:13","slug":"noisy-eaters-celebrated-in-international-tree-kangaroo-crunch-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596534\/","title":{"rendered":"Noisy eaters celebrated in International Tree Kangaroo Crunch-a-Thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Are you a bit of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/65035879\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">noisy eater<\/a>? Then you&#8217;re in good company!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This week zoos around the world have been taking part in the International Tree Kangaroo Crunch-a-Thon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s a competition where keepers share videos of the little marsupials enjoying a series of crunchy snacks and recording their chewing &#8211; to find out who is the loudest chomper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The competition organisers &#8211; The AZA (Association of Zoos &amp; Aquariums) SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) &#8211; hope they can raise more awareness of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/61633046\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">endangered <\/a>animal ahead of World Tree Kangaroo Day on 21 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To watch some of them in action, scroll down, and keep reading to find out who came out on top in this year&#8217;s contest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are you a bit of a noisy eater? Then you&#8217;re in good company! This week zoos around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-596534","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\/596534","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=596534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}