{"id":407736,"date":"2026-07-22T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407736\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T09:00:07","slug":"warthogs-gulp-down-water-to-beat-the-summer-heat-at-oakland-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407736\/","title":{"rendered":"Warthogs Gulp Down Water to Beat the Summer Heat at Oakland Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pair of warthogs were seen gulping down water at Oakland Zoo to beat the Californian summer heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage was published by Oakland Zoo, who said it was &#8220;your sign to stay hydrated today!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The National Weather Service issued a <a data-ylk=\"slk:heat advisory;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\/NWSBayArea\/status\/2079626152218411053\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">heat advisory<\/a> for the area on Tuesday, July 21, and said that &#8220;hydration is a critical piece to surviving the heat &#8211; drink water.&#8221; Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of warthogs were seen gulping down water at Oakland Zoo to beat the Californian summer heat.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[99910,143,145,144,12294,31219],"class_list":["post-407736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-heat-advisory","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-zoo","tag-the-national-weather-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407736","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=407736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}