{"id":446769,"date":"2026-08-29T02:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446769\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T02:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T02:30:18","slug":"july-4-birthday-inspires-names-for-fresno-chaffee-zoo-lion-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446769\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4 birthday inspires names for Fresno Chaffee Zoo lion cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno Chaffee Zoo\u2019s two African lion cubs now have official names, chosen to mark their July 4 birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The female cub has been named Jubilee, meaning a special celebration or anniversary. <\/p>\n<p>The male cub has been named Indy, short for independence.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-week-old cubs have been resting and bonding with their mother, Zamaya, behind the scenes. <\/p>\n<p>This was Zamaya\u2019s second litter.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo guests can see the cubs\u2019 siblings, Asali and Taraj, in their habitat in African Adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno Chaffee Zoo\u2019s two African lion cubs now have official names, chosen to mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-446769","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\/446769","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=446769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}