{"id":449553,"date":"2026-09-01T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449553\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T04:00:08","slug":"fresno-chaffee-zoo-welcomes-new-female-masai-giraffe-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449553\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Chaffee Zoo welcomes new female Masai giraffe calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno County Zoo announced the birth of a new female giraffe calf.<\/p>\n<p>The Masai giraffe, Siku, gave birth to a female calf on August 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Siku and her calf will remain behind the scenes as they continue to bond and be monitored by the Zoo\u2019s Animal Care and Veterinary teams.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second calf born to Siku and male Masai giraffe Fenny at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/july-4-birthday-inspires-names-for-fresno-chaffee-zoo-lion-cubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 4 birthday inspires names for Fresno Chaffee Zoo lion cubs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the birth of the calf is bittersweet with the recent passing of Fenny.<\/p>\n<p>The staff says, \u201cThe birth of his daughter has become a bright spot for the Zoo staff and guests that cared for Fenny, and we look forward to introducing her to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno County Zoo announced the birth of a new female giraffe calf. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-449553","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\/449553","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=449553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}