{"id":289465,"date":"2026-04-28T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289465\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:20:08","slug":"warthogs-team-up-for-digging-at-oakland-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289465\/","title":{"rendered":"Warthogs Team Up for Digging at Oakland Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two warthogs at Oakland Zoo recently surprised visitors by teaming up for a joint excavation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage shared online shows one digging into the ground before a second jumps in, turning it into a two-snouted effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the <a data-ylk=\"slk:zoo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandzoo.org\/animals\/warthog\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">zoo<\/a>, warthogs use their tough snouts to root through soil in search of food like roots and bulbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThat unmistakable warthog face isn\u2019t just for looks,\u201d the zoo <a data-ylk=\"slk:wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/oakzoo\/status\/2048910652794683549\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> on social media. \u201cTheir tough, shovel-like snout helps them dig face-first through hard, dry savanna soil.\u201d Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two warthogs at Oakland Zoo recently surprised visitors by teaming up for a joint excavation. Footage shared online&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,12294,123734],"class_list":["post-289465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-zoo","tag-warthogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289465","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=289465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}