{"id":401286,"date":"2026-07-16T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:28:08","slug":"african-lion-cubs-born-at-chaffee-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401286\/","title":{"rendered":"African Lion Cubs Born at Chaffee Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 Chaffee Zoo has announced its African lion, Zamaya, has given birth to her second litter of cubs.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery occurred on Saturday, July 4th.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo officials say mom and her two cubs are resting and bonding behind-the-scenes as they continue to be monitored by the Zoo\u2019s Animal Care and Veterinary teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFresno Chaffee Zoo is excited to expand our lion pride with the addition of two new cubs,\u201d said General Curator Nicole Presley. \u201cZamaya is doing a great job, as<br \/>expected, and is recovering well. Both mom and the cubs will stay behind-the scenes until they have received all their vaccines and are ready to meet the public<br \/>and the rest of our lion pride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the second litter born to Zamaya and male African Lion, Chisulo.\u00a0 Taraj and Asali, born in 2024, were the pairs first litter and remain at the Zoo today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 Chaffee Zoo has announced its African lion, Zamaya, has given birth to her second litter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-401286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401286","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=401286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}