{"id":634433,"date":"2026-06-12T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634433\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:06:08","slug":"excitement-as-southern-white-rhinos-arrive-at-paignton-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634433\/","title":{"rendered":"Excitement as southern white rhinos arrive at Paignton Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pair of southern white rhinos have arrived at a Devon zoo for &#8220;the first time in decades&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paignton Zoo said half-brothers Khulu and Benja arrived on 5 June from Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire. The species is currently classified as near threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said 20-month-old Khulu was born to parents Fahari and Sizzle, while two-year old Benja was born on 7 March 2024 to Jaseera and Sizzle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lisa Britton, head of living collections, said the zoo was &#8220;incredibly excited&#8221; for the species&#8217; return, adding that the pair spent their first 48 hours in Devon settling into their new indoor accommodation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of southern white rhinos have arrived at a Devon zoo for &#8220;the first time in decades&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-634433","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\/634433","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=634433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}