{"id":633141,"date":"2026-06-11T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633141\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:47:26","slug":"whipsnade-zoo-delighted-after-endangered-elephant-gives-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/633141\/","title":{"rendered":"Whipsnade Zoo delighted after endangered elephant gives birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A zoo has expressed delight after an &#8220;exceptional mother&#8221; gave birth to an endangered Asian elephant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Late on Monday, the patter of not so tiny feet was heard at Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire, as Donna delivered the 1m (3.3ft) tall, 110kg (243lb) male calf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The birth, which followed a 22-month gestation, was captured on CCTV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stefan Groeneveld, a manager at the zoo, said: &#8220;With Asian elephants facing so many challenges in the wild, this calf represents real hope for the future of the species.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A zoo has expressed delight after an &#8220;exceptional mother&#8221; gave birth to an endangered Asian elephant. Late on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-633141","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\/633141","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=633141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}