{"id":451343,"date":"2026-09-02T19:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451343\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:10:52","slug":"beloved-san-francisco-zoo-mandrill-dies-at-24-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451343\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved San Francisco Zoo Mandrill Dies At 24: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lulu died shortly after returning from the Zoo&#8217;s hospital, where she was being evaluated for a &#8220;myriad of conditions&#8221; and a possible cancerous mass located in her neck, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was an excellent and caring mother,&#8221; said Kyle Runzel, the San Francisco Zoo&#8217;s primate curator. &#8220;She was extremely gentle and protective, and was a true favorite among her caretakers, staff, and volunteers. We were so lucky to have her in our lives. She was quite a unique mandrill.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lulu died shortly after returning from the Zoo&#8217;s hospital, where she was being evaluated for a &#8220;myriad of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-451343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451343","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=451343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}