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“He gained weight, developed a fuller and shinier coat, and demonstrated strong overall health during follow-up examinations.”<\/p>\n

The fox weighed about 11lb (5.1kg) when he arrived at the zoo and now weighs nearly 14lb (6.2kg), staff said.<\/p>\n

Craig Piper, interim director, said: “Basil has done exceptionally well since arriving at the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n

“We are very pleased with his recovery and continued progress since his long journey across the Atlantic.”<\/p>\n

The zoo said it was still assessing a suitable long-term home for the fox.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Associated British Ports Southampton previously joked the animal had “booked itself a transatlantic crossing”.<\/p>\n

The case came weeks after a stowaway raccoon discovered on a cargo vessel<\/a> in Southampton was put down because of concerns it could be carrying diseases including rabies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“He gained weight, developed a fuller and shinier coat, and demonstrated strong overall health during follow-up examinations.” The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-599463","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\/599463","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=599463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}