{"id":41668,"date":"2025-11-07T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:38:08","slug":"la-zoo-welcomes-first-baby-orangutan-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41668\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Zoo welcomes first baby orangutan in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline:<\/p>\n<p>    Los Angeles Zoo staff have a new infant on their hands. An <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/lazoo.org\/2025\/11\/orangutan-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">orangutan baby boy<\/a> has made his debut at the zoo after just weeks out of the womb.<\/p>\n<p>About the baby: The little boy was born Oct. 10 to 43-year-old mom Kalim and 31-year-old dad Isim. The new ape is part of the Bornean orangutan family, which spend about 90% of their time in trees. The orangutans are also categorized as \u201ccritically endangered\u201d because of climate change and human behavior, according to the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Why so long? The little guy is the zoo\u2019s first new orangutan in 15 years. These apes have the longest intervals between births of all non-human primates. A mother gives birth once every seven to eight years because they spend time teaching their young how to survive.<\/p>\n<p>See the baby: If you want to get a peak at the little one, you\u2019re in luck. Zoo visitors can visit the baby while he bonds with his mother at the Red Ape Rain Forest exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: Los Angeles Zoo staff have a new infant on their hands. An orangutan baby boy has made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28093,48,6105,52,51,47,50,49,28092,28094],"class_list":["post-41668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-baby-ape","tag-la","tag-la-county","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-zoo","tag-orangutan-exhibit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41668","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=41668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}