{"id":459751,"date":"2026-09-10T20:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459751\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:50:23","slug":"8-lizards-born-at-san-diego-zoo-after-dozens-of-reptiles-seized-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459751\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Lizards Born At San Diego Zoo After Dozens Of Reptiles Seized At Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The animals were discovered inside a vehicle at the San Ysidro Port of Entry as part of an wildlife smuggling scheme, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"54855-1789066837\" data-image=\"54855-1789066837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Yellow-blotched Palm Pit Viper Photo 1.jpg\" data- \/>The seizure included 60 Abronia lizards, four venomous yellow-blotched palm pit vipers, a baby crocodile and an indigo snake. Credit: Ken Bohn\/San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance <\/p>\n<p>The seizure included 60 Abronia lizards, four venomous yellow-blotched palm pit vipers, a baby crocodile and an indigo snake. Some of the pillowcases, which were knotted closed and sealed with tape, contained 15 to 20 reptiles, according to the organization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The animals were discovered inside a vehicle at the San Ysidro Port of Entry as part of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-459751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459751","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=459751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}