{"id":276046,"date":"2026-05-19T02:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276046\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:33:09","slug":"central-florida-zoo-celebrates-birth-of-two-fossa-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276046\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida Zoo celebrates birth of two fossa babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Central Florida Zoo &amp; Botanical Gardens is celebrating the arrival of two new fossa babies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the zoo, the fossa kits were born to mom Alina just six days after the first birthday celebration for last year\u2019s \u201cmiracle babies,\u201d Anansi and Mahery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zoo officials said Alina has been doing a great job caring for the babies behind the scenes. Because of that, guests may notice the Health &amp; Wellness Garden is temporarily closed while staff give Alina and the kits extra privacy during the important early weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The babies are still too young for the staff to determine their genders. The zoo\u2019s veterinary team plans to conduct the kits\u2019 first hands-on exam around eight weeks old during their first vaccination appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWelcome to the world, little ones!\u201d the zoo shared in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:click here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Central Florida Zoo &amp; Botanical Gardens is celebrating the arrival of two new fossa babies. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,117790],"class_list":["post-276046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-miracle-babies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276046","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=276046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}