{"id":279772,"date":"2026-04-22T05:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279772\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:21:08","slug":"lettuce-loving-lemur-lunches-on-leaf-at-oakland-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279772\/","title":{"rendered":"Lettuce-Loving Lemur Lunches on Leaf at Oakland Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandzoo.org\/animals\/ring-tailed-lemur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ring-tailed lemur;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;ring-tailed lemur&quot;}\" class=\"link \">ring-tailed lemur<\/a> was captured munching on a piece of lettuce at California\u2019s Oakland Zoo, recently shared footage shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage released by the zoo shows a lemur named Angela nibble on a piece of lettuce while resting on a tree branch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oakland Zoo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandzoo.org\/animals\/ring-tailed-lemur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;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;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> lemurs\u2019 diets primarily consist of fruit and leaves and has been shown to include at least 109 species of plants, as well as eating soil. Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ring-tailed lemur was captured munching on a piece of lettuce at California\u2019s Oakland Zoo, recently shared footage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,12294],"class_list":["post-279772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","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\/279772","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=279772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}