{"id":42270,"date":"2025-11-07T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/42270\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:01:14","slug":"its-a-boy-la-zoo-welcomes-new-baby-orangutan-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/42270\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a boy! LA Zoo welcomes new baby orangutan \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Orangutan family living inside the Los Angeles Zoo has welcomed a new baby boy, the first infant to be born at the zoo in nearly 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was born on Oct. 10 to Kalim, his 43-year-old mother, and Isim, his 31-year-old dad, according to the LA Zoo. This is the first offspring between the couple. Kalim has given birth to two orangutans before the new baby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching the orangutan group interact with the infant will be truly special, and we\u2019re excited for our guests to experience the joy of watching our growing orangutan family,\u201d said Candace Sclimenti, mammal curator at the zoo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/New-Bornean-orangutan-infant_photo-by-Animal-Keeper-Jennifer-H.-photo-courtesy-of-L.A.-Zoo.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tLA Zoo<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tLA Zoo<\/p>\n<p>LA Zoo<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other animals, orangutans take time to have babies. Once an infant is born, its mother typically spends seven to eight years to care for the offspring, teaching lessons like how to avoid predators and what food to eat,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf all non-human primates, orangutans have the longest interbirth interval,\u201d the zoo said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before the new baby boy was born, Kalim, the mother, spent 14 years raising her offspring, named Elka, the zoo explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The LA Zoo is home to Bornean orangutans, the world\u2019s largest arboreal mammals. The orangutans, who share 97% of their DNA with humans, spend most of their time in trees.<\/p>\n<p>Guests can see Kalim and her new baby boy bonding together at the zoo\u2019s Red Ape Rain Forest exhibit, weather permitting, the zoo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orangutan family living inside the Los Angeles Zoo has welcomed a new baby boy, the first infant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,18842,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-42270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-la-zoo","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270","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=42270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}