{"id":410052,"date":"2026-07-23T23:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410052\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:25:10","slug":"zoo-announces-baby-siamangs-name-is-soleil-meaning-sun-or-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410052\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoo announces baby siamang&#8217;s name is Soleil, meaning &#8216;sun&#8217; or &#8216;sunlight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced on Thursday that its new siamang finally has a name.<\/p>\n<p>Her name is Soleil, which means &#8216;sun&#8217; or &#8216;sunlight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The zoo says she&#8217;s a little ball of sunshine, so it fits perfectly.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Zoo announces baby siamang's name is Soleil, meaning 'sun' or 'sunlight' (Photo: Fresno Chaffee Zoo)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/resources\/media2\/16x9\/1080\/800\/0x0\/80\/153b06ef-bbe3-4fee-9770-cdc4a625fc06-740064027_1046228568091135_8758231458693230204_n.jfif?crop_fill=1&amp;size=647x364\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Zoo announces baby siamang&#8217;s name is Soleil, meaning &#8216;sun&#8217; or &#8216;sunlight&#8217; (Photo: Fresno Chaffee Zoo)<\/p>\n<p>The zoo said that Safiya, a 16-year-old siamang, <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-chaffee-zoo-welcomes-baby-siamang-born-to-16-year-old-safiya-ape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gave birth to Soleil on Thursday, June 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She is Safiya and Noah&#8217;s third daughter at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. <\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Soleil!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced on Thursday that its new siamang finally has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-410052","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\/410052","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=410052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}