{"id":311962,"date":"2026-05-12T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311962\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:32:30","slug":"oakland-zoo-announces-birth-of-southern-pudu-the-worlds-second-smallest-species-of-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311962\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Zoo announces birth of southern pudu, the world\u2019s second-smallest species of deer"},"content":{"rendered":"

(NewsNation<\/a>) \u2014 The Oakland Zoo<\/a> is asking the public to help name its newest critter: a newborn southern pudu, the world\u2019s second-smallest deer species<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Northern California zoo posted<\/a> on social media that a southern pudu<\/a> named Riley gave birth this week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMeet our a\u2011DEER\u2011able newest addition!\u201d the zoo wrote. \u201cThis little guy is yet to be named, so if you have ideas, drop them in the comments!\u201d<\/p>\n

Native to Chile and Argentina, southern pudu are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and are protected from hunting, according to the zoo\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>. The southern pudu population is believed to have declined by 50% over the past 500 years and by 20% over the past 12 to 15 years.<\/p>\n

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The tiny deer are typically 7 to 8 inches tall at birth and weigh 1 to 2 pounds, according to the website. They can eventually grow to be between 24 and 29 inches tall and 33 inches long, and usually weigh between 15 and 30 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(NewsNation) \u2014 The Oakland Zoo is asking the public to help name its newest critter: a newborn southern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5661,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-311962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-author","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311962","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=311962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}