{"id":95458,"date":"2025-12-15T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/95458\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:28:06","slug":"jasper-the-meerkat-passes-away-at-fresno-chaffee-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/95458\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasper the meerkat passes away at Fresno Chaffee Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Jasper, a beloved 15-year-old meerkat at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, has passed away. <\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Chaffe Zoo says their animal care and veterinary teams made the difficult decision to humanely euthanize him due to age-related issues following a recent health exam. <\/p>\n<p>Jasper was one of the original members of the meerkat mob in African Adventure.<\/p>\n<p>He had been closely monitored for several years due to his advanced age. <\/p>\n<p>In his final years, he transitioned from being the zoo&#8217;s sole meerkat to helping establish a thriving mob. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The zoo extends its deepest condolences to Jasper&#8217;s animal care team and all who have cherished memories of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Jasper, a beloved 15-year-old meerkat at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, has passed away. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-95458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95458","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=95458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}