{"id":349622,"date":"2026-06-06T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349622\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:40:10","slug":"two-year-old-giraffe-takes-first-steps-in-new-oakland-zoo-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349622\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Year-Old Giraffe Takes First Steps in New Oakland Zoo Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A two-year-old giraffe has taken the first steps into her habitat at California&#8217;s Oakland Zoo after moving from The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage released by the Oakland Zoo shows Joann exploring her new habitat alongside her female mentor Maggie, who is the <a data-ylk=\"slk:oldest female;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\/news\/joann-giraffe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">oldest female<\/a> in the zoo&#8217;s herd at 14 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Joann is incredibly sweet and seeks out connections with the other giraffes and her new Animal Care Keepers,&#8221; Oakland Zoo Animal Care Keeper Jessica Parke said in a <a data-ylk=\"slk:press release statement;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\/news\/joann-giraffe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">press release statement<\/a>. &#8220;She is very brave, and her curiosity grows every day. We can&#8217;t wait to watch her grow here at Oakland Zoo!&#8221; Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-year-old giraffe has taken the first steps into her habitat at California&#8217;s Oakland Zoo after moving from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10693,143,145,144,12294],"class_list":["post-349622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-habitat","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\/349622","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=349622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}