{"id":199564,"date":"2026-04-16T16:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199564\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:53:11","slug":"here-are-the-new-baby-animals-at-the-bronx-zoo-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199564\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the new baby animals at the Bronx Zoo this spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"USA<\/a><\/p>\n

Amethyst Martinez, USA TODAY<\/p>\n

Thu, April 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM UTC<\/p>\n

As the weather gets warmer<\/a>, New Yorkers are looking for ways to get outside.<\/p>\n

Luckily, new animals are at the Bronx Zoo and on view.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the new creatures you can visit at one of the most famed zoos in the country this spring and summer.<\/p>\n

What new animals are at the Bronx Zoo?<\/p>\n

Many of the zoo’s newest animals are infants.<\/p>\n

Here are the babies you can spot this year:<\/p>\n

infant pygmy slow loris, located in World of Darkness<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A pygmy slow loris baby at the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n

infant collared lemur in Madagascar!<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A collared lemur baby at the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n

infant gelada at the Gelada Reserve<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A baby gelada on display at the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n

nyala calf at African Plains<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A nyala calf at the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n

Two new animals are joining the roster, too: a panther chameleon in Madagascar!, and an aardvark in Carter Giraffe Building.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A panther chameleon at the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n

The zoo also will have multiple exhibits reopening for the season, including the Congo Gorilla Forest, Butterfly Garden, Wild Asia Monorail and the Children’s Zoo Farmyard.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Here are the new baby animals at the Bronx Zoo this spring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amethyst Martinez, USA TODAY Thu, April 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM UTC As the weather gets warmer, New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,25511,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-199564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-bronx-zoo","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-the-bronx","14":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","15":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}