{"id":7773,"date":"2025-10-16T11:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7773\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:51:33","slug":"silverback-gorilla-new-resident-at-san-francisco-zoo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7773\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverback gorilla new resident at San Francisco Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cecil joins three female gorillas already living at the zoo and is now the only male in the group.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 alt=\"&lt;div&gt;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&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6f942f3fbc533aa632425ffddfa72396.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;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&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759edd9913f7dfbfd9d721d89853cd7.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; The San Francisco Zoo has welcomed a new resident to its gorilla preserve \u2014 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5733,288,101,103,102,7108,104,106,105,6043],"class_list":["post-7773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-cincinnati-zoo","tag-resident","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-francisco-zoo","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-western-lowland-gorilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","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=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}