{"id":277234,"date":"2026-06-24T22:46:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277234\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:46:05","slug":"manhattans-sunset-zoo-announces-death-of-10-year-old-sichuan-takin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277234\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan\u2019s Sunset Zoo announces death of 10-year-old Sichuan takin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Sunset Zoo announced that Bao-Yu, the 10-year-old Sichuan takin, has died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/14kSdJacKfk\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/14kSdJacKfk\/\">social media post<\/a>, Bao-Yu had been dealing with untreatable health issues that affected his movement and behavior. As a result, Zoo officials made the difficult decision to say goodbye. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bao-Yu was born at the Minnesota Zoo and later came to the Sunset Zoo with his mother, Mu-She, on March 18, 2024. Mu-She passed away in Dec. 2025. Zoo officials added that after Mu-She died, Bao continued to be a special part of the zoo\u2019s family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\">He was curious, gentle, and loved exploring his habitat, often climbing to the top to watch our guests. Even though he was the largest animal at the Zoo, he was a very sweet boy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\">We feel honored to have cared for this unique species over the past few years. With Bao-Yu\u2019s passing, the Sichuan takin exhibit will remain empty at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Sunset Zoo announced that Bao-Yu, the 10-year-old Sichuan takin, has died. According to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[106559,75,84,8444,8443,83,9,24,63,106560,14454,37211,106557,106558],"class_list":["post-277234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-bao-yu","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-kansas","tag-manhattan-ks","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sichuan-takin","tag-sunset","tag-sunset-zoo","tag-sunset-zoo-manhattan","tag-sunset-zoo-manhattan-ks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277234","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=277234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}