{"id":306772,"date":"2026-05-08T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/306772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:24:07","slug":"oakland-zoo-debuts-a-deer-able-baby-southern-pudu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/306772\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Zoo Debuts &#8216;A-Deer-Able&#8217; Baby Southern Pudu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">California\u2019s Oakland Zoo debuted its new baby southern pudu and asked social media users for their help in naming the youngster on Thursday, May 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Recently released footage by the Oakland Zoo shows a southern pudu named Riley licking her \u201csweet, healthy baby boy\u201d this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cMeet our a\u2011DEER\u2011able newest addition!\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\/2052555146790367633\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Oakland Zoo also asked social media users for their help in naming the fawn in the comments, with users suggesting options like \u201cMaximo,\u201d \u201cVince,\u201d and \u201cChico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The zoo said southern pudus are the second smallest deer in the world, reaching between 24 and 29 inches tall and 33 inches long, according to their <a data-ylk=\"slk:website;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\/southern-pudu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Oakland Zoo debuted its new baby southern pudu and asked social media users for their help in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,12294,129030],"class_list":["post-306772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-zoo","tag-southern-pudu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306772","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=306772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}