{"id":626266,"date":"2026-06-07T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626266\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:58:09","slug":"longleat-keepers-excited-to-care-for-trio-of-maned-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626266\/","title":{"rendered":"Longleat keepers &#8216;excited&#8217; to care for trio of maned wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The maned wolves have been living at the park for six months to acclimatise, and will now be living in areas open to visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have unusual proportions, with long legs that allow them to see over the long grasses of their natural habitat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The species has been in decline in its native South America in recent decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are fewer than 17,000 maned wolves left in the wild and the species has seen a 20% reduction in just 15 years,&#8221; Kilbane said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This makes the three sisters incredibly important, even though we don&#8217;t plan to breed them currently.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The maned wolves have been living at the park for six months to acclimatise, and will now be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-626266","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\/626266","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=626266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}