{"id":2241,"date":"2025-10-15T18:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2241\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:41:06","slug":"pittsburgh-zoo-moving-2-elephants-to-conservation-center-with-hope-of-growing-herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2241\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Zoo moving 2 elephants to conservation center with hope of growing herd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the African elephants at the Pittsburgh Zoo are on the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The zoo says female elephants Victoria and Zuri will be moving to the International Conservation Center in Somerset. The zoo says the move is to help &#8220;ensure appropriate companionship&#8221; for elephants at both facilities and allow the herd to grow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Victoria and Zuri will live at the zoo&#8217;s conservation center with bull elephant Jackson and females Seeni, Sukiri and Bette. That leaves Savanna, Angeline and Natasha at the zoo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vic-zuri.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"vic-zuri.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Elephants Victoria and Zuri are on the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                (Photo: Pittsburgh Zoo)<\/p>\n<p>The zoo says its elephants in Pittsburgh and Somerset contribute to the preservation of elephants in the wild. The breeding herd also plays an important part in preserving elephants worldwide; Jackson is tied to nearly half of African elephant births in North America over the past decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every decision at the Zoo is centered around the well-being of our resident animals,&#8221; zoo president and CEO Dr. Jeremy Goodman said in a news release. &#8220;The plan for our elephants strengthens our ability to continue to provide world-class care while advancing our conservation mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The zoo says the carefully planned series of elephant moves will enhance herd dynamics while prioritizing the unique needs and well-being of each animal. More details are expected to be announced in the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the African elephants at the Pittsburgh Zoo are on the move.\u00a0 The zoo says female elephants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,2063],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}