{"id":622722,"date":"2026-06-05T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622722\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:39:10","slug":"devon-trust-celebrates-birth-of-rare-red-ruffed-lemur-quadruplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622722\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon trust celebrates birth of rare red ruffed lemur quadruplets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A wildlife trust is is celebrating the rare birth of red-ruffed lemur quadruplets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaldon Wildlife Trust in Devon said the lemurs were &#8220;just so, so cute but so, so special at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust said red ruffed lemurs were only found in a small area of the northeast of Madagascar and were &#8220;critically endangered&#8221;. It said the birth of quadruplets was incredibly rare, occurring in fewer than 6% of births worldwide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zak Showell, director of Shaldon Wildlife Trust, said it was a &#8220;huge success and a testament to the hard work that the team do looking after and caring for our animals.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wildlife trust is is celebrating the rare birth of red-ruffed lemur quadruplets. Shaldon Wildlife Trust in Devon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-622722","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\/622722","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=622722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}