{"id":177148,"date":"2026-03-04T01:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177148\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:49:08","slug":"manatees-at-jacksonville-zoo-botanical-gardens-featured-in-new-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177148\/","title":{"rendered":"Manatees at Jacksonville Zoo &#038; Botanical Gardens featured in new habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Visitors who want an up-close look at the manatees being cared for at the Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens won\u2019t have to travel far from the zoo\u2019s new entrance to see them.<br \/>\nThe newly finished $72 million J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Manatee River habitat is part of the new VyStar SkyScape entrance way at the zoo.<br \/>\nThe new Manatee River habitat is a 330,000-gallon, state-of-the-art critical care facility designed to rescue, rehabilitate, recover, and release Florida manatees as part of Florida\u2019s statewide rescue and rehabilitation network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Visitors who want an up-close look at the manatees being cared for at the Jacksonville Zoo and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1684,502,1039,116,118,117,17647,22624],"class_list":{"0":"post-177148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-duval-county","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-jacksonville-zoo-and-botanical-gardens","15":"tag-manatees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}