{"id":343509,"date":"2026-07-17T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343509\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:24:08","slug":"cuteness-overload-2-baby-lemurs-born-at-jacksonville-zoos-primate-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343509\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuteness Overload: 2 baby lemurs born at Jacksonville Zoo\u2019s Primate Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens shared photos Friday of two of the newest (and smallest) faces in the zoo\u2019s Primate Forest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Europa, a crowned lemur, is the Zoo\u2019s first female crowned lemur baby! <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Born in May to parents Bryan and Jupiter, Europa joined her older brother in carrying on the family\u2019s celestial tradition; both siblings are named after moons of Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Odessa, the Zoo\u2019s newest mongoose lemur, was born in April to parents Olivia and Ignacio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">\u201cWhile Europa and Odessa are still growing and spending time behind the scenes with their moms, we can\u2019t wait to share more updates as they get bigger!\u201d the Zoo wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonvillezoo.org\/animal-habitats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonvillezoo.org\/animal-habitats\">The zoo\u2019s Primate Forest exhibit<\/a>, which features a 40-foot Kapok Tree, is home to a variety of primate species, including: Bonobo, Angolan Colobus, Guereza Colobus, Western Lowland Gorilla, Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur, Ring-tailed Lemur, Sifaka Lemur, Crowned Lemur, Blue-Eyed-Black Lemur and Mandrill.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens shared photos Friday of two of the newest (and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1684,116,118,117,7418,17647],"class_list":["post-343509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-animals","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-zoo","tag-jacksonville-zoo-and-botanical-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343509","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=343509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}