{"id":791754,"date":"2026-10-04T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791754\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:34:09","slug":"longleat-safari-park-keepers-hoping-for-porcupine-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791754\/","title":{"rendered":"Longleat Safari Park keepers hoping for porcupine babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zookeepers are hoping to see baby porcupines &#8211; known as a porcupettes &#8211; following the arrival of Gus, a male prehensile-tailed porcupine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Longleat Safari Park, located between Bath and Salisbury, has welcomed Gus (short for Asparagus), who they hope will spark up a romance with their female porcupine, Pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The park currently has three species of porcupine, with Gus being their first male prehensile-tailed porcupine, also known as the Brazilian porcupine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jon Ovens, the lead keeper, said: &#8220;It was lovely to see them getting on from the first moment of meeting so we will be keeping an eye on them but the average pregnancy is around 200 days so we have some time to wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zookeepers are hoping to see baby porcupines &#8211; known as a porcupettes &#8211; following the arrival of Gus,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-791754","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\/791754","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=791754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}