{"id":252235,"date":"2026-04-04T23:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:57:19","slug":"oakland-zoo-staff-care-for-orphaned-mountain-lion-kitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252235\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Zoo Staff Care for Orphaned Mountain Lion Kitten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Oakland Zoo in California said on April 2 that an orphaned mountain lion kitten that was rescued in southern California in late March was being cared for by staff at the zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The three-week-old kitten, named Crimson, was first rescued by the National Park Service before being brought to the Los Angeles Zoo, where it underwent a health check, had multiple daily bottle feeds, and was kept in quarantine with minimal human contact, the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To continue his rehabilitation, Crimson was then moved to Oakland Zoo where he was receiving bottle-feeds every three hours and socializing with other mountain lions.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staff eventually hope the introduce Crimson to <a href=\"https:\/\/newswire.storyful.com\/story\/339940\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Clover,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Clover,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Clover,<\/a> another orphaned kitten at the zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mountain lion need 12-18 months with their mother to learn essential survival skills, Oakland Zoo said. Due to Crimson\u2019s age, he lacks the lacks the skills necessary to survive in the wild. Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oakland Zoo in California said on April 2 that an orphaned mountain lion kitten that was rescued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[111103,28092,36735,42334,143,145,144,12294,1009],"class_list":{"0":"post-252235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-crimson","9":"tag-los-angeles-zoo","10":"tag-mountain-lion","11":"tag-national-park-service","12":"tag-oakland","13":"tag-oakland-headlines","14":"tag-oakland-news","15":"tag-oakland-zoo","16":"tag-southern-california"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252235","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=252235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}