{"id":7633,"date":"2025-10-16T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7633\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:15:04","slug":"silverback-gorilla-new-resident-at-san-francisco-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7633\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverback gorilla new resident at San Francisco Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/n-sf-zoo-new-gorilla-_00.00.21.22.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">The San Francisco Zoo has welcomed a new resident to its gorilla preserve \u2014 a 26-year-old male silverback western lowland gorilla named Cecil. Oct. 15, 2025\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; The San Francisco Zoo has welcomed a new resident to its gorilla preserve \u2014 a 26-year-old male silverback western lowland gorilla named Cecil.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Zoo officials said Cecil was born at the Cincinnati Zoo and arrived in San Francisco in August. Since then, he has been gradually adjusting to his new home.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Cecil joins three female gorillas already living at the zoo and is now the only male in the group.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;This is his first time in a family troop,&#8221; Robbie Graham, the San Francisco Zoo curator of mammals, said on Wednesday during a media tour. &#8220;He&#8217;s letting him know who&#8217;s boss. They&#8217;re all cohabiting now and getting along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/n-sf-zoo-new-gorilla-_00.00.34.04.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">The San Francisco Zoo has welcomed a new resident to its gorilla preserve \u2014 a 26-year-old male silverback western lowland gorilla named Cecil. Oct. 15, 2025\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/n-sf-zoo-new-gorilla-_00.00.05.28.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">The San Francisco Zoo has welcomed a new resident to its gorilla preserve \u2014 a 26-year-old male silverback western lowland gorilla named Cecil. Oct. 15, 2025\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article The San Francisco Zoo has welcomed a new resident to its gorilla preserve \u2014 a 26-year-old male&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,100,7700,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-7633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pets-animals","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633","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=7633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}