{"id":608085,"date":"2026-05-28T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608085\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:43:09","slug":"suffolks-africa-alive-welcomes-three-bat-eared-fox-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608085\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk&#8217;s Africa Alive welcomes three bat-eared fox kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three fox kits are the first to be born at a Suffolk zoo in almost 20 years, and are thought to be the first new arrivals of their kind at any European zoo this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Africa Alive, near Kessingland, welcomed three bat-eared fox kits at the end of April to the UK&#8217;s only breeding pair, Vuko and Vysoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frankie Bleasdale-Partridge, deputy animal manager at the zoo, said the kits were &#8220;very fluffy&#8221; and had been snoozing in the shade during the recent heatwave. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So far they&#8217;re doing really well, really strong, bouncing around, playing with each other, which is lovely to see,&#8221; she told BBC Radio Suffolk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three fox kits are the first to be born at a Suffolk zoo in almost 20 years, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-608085","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\/608085","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=608085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}