{"id":187123,"date":"2026-02-21T04:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187123\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:48:11","slug":"oakland-zoo-announces-birth-of-first-red-tailed-monkey-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187123\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Zoo Announces Birth of First Red-Tailed Monkey Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oakland Zoo announced the birth of a red-tailed monkey baby, the first newborn of its kind at the park, with recently released footage showing a mom and her adorable baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a press release, the zoo said, \u201cNonami (mother) and Marley (father), our resident red-tailed guenons, welcomed a male offspring earlier this month. This milestone marks the first birth of a guenon monkey at Oakland Zoo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The zoo added that the mother and baby were \u201cthriving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHe is nursing and bonding normally with Nonami, and she is ensuring the baby stays close. As a veteran mom, Nonami has successfully given birth at her previous zoo to two other females who also live at Oakland Zoo: Ikea and Skittles,\u201d the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the zoo\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandzoo.org\/animals\/schmidts-guenon-red-tailed-monkey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">website<\/a>, red-tailed monkeys are characterized by their \u201cpronounced cheek pouches that are stuffed with food during foraging. They don a white or yellow nose against a blue-gray face, white cheek tufts and a long, red tail measuring up to 36 inches which measures twice their body length.\u201d Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Zoo announced the birth of a red-tailed monkey baby, the first newborn of its kind at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[88041,143,145,144,12294],"class_list":["post-187123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-adorable-baby","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}