{"id":707049,"date":"2026-07-23T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707049\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:32:09","slug":"jersey-zoo-geckos-released-in-mauritius-despite-big-headed-ant-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707049\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey Zoo geckos released in Mauritius despite big-headed ant attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a result, 68 geckos were released on Ilot Vacoas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cole said &#8220;very few&#8221; would have survived if the team had not reacted.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We pride ourselves at Durrell at being nimble and being able to react quickly to new challenges and improve conservation outcomes, and this is a perfect example of this,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We now hope to incubate, and hand-release, future eggs, which will ensure the survival of many more geckos.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a result, 68 geckos were released on Ilot Vacoas. Cole said &#8220;very few&#8221; would have survived if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-707049","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\/707049","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=707049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}