{"id":748180,"date":"2026-08-24T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748180\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:50:10","slug":"london-zoo-animals-hop-on-scales-for-annual-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748180\/","title":{"rendered":"London Zoo animals hop on scales for annual weigh-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Animals at London Zoo are being checked and measured as part of its annual weigh-in day to monitor their health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zookeepers will need to coax every bird, reptile, fish and  mammal &#8211; from the largest rodents in the world to the greenest katydids &#8211; to the weighing scale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each measurement is added to the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS), a global database shared with animal carers and conservationists that compares important information on thousands of endangered species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many of the zoo&#8217;s animals are trained to perch on a scale while zookeepers note down their measurements, but others will need to be tempted with a strategic snack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Animals at London Zoo are being checked and measured as part of its annual weigh-in day to monitor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748180","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=748180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}