{"id":267644,"date":"2026-04-14T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267644\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:57:08","slug":"oakland-zoo-celebrates-gibbons-15th-birthday-with-special-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267644\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Zoo Celebrates Gibbon&#8217;s 15th Birthday With Special Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Oakland Zoo released footage of their gibbon Mei singing in honor of her 15th birthday on Monday, April 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage released by the zoo, which is located in Oakland, California, shows Mei vocalizing with her baby Joon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/crested-gibbons-sing-in-different-dialects-43447306\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Smithsonian Magazine explains;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;Smithsonian Magazine explains&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Smithsonian Magazine explains<\/a>, gibbons communicate by singing, whether that be to define their territory, find a mate, or strengthen their bonds with other gibbons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mei was born in 2011 and came to the Oakland Zoo in the spring of 2019 to be partnered with another gibbon named Rainer, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandzoo.org\/animals\/white-handed-gibbon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:zoo\u2019s website;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;zoo\u2019s website&quot;}\" class=\"link \">zoo\u2019s website<\/a>. Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oakland Zoo released footage of their gibbon Mei singing in honor of her 15th birthday on Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,12294,116793],"class_list":["post-267644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-zoo","tag-smithsonian-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267644","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=267644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}