{"id":254947,"date":"2026-07-29T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254947\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:08:08","slug":"pittsburgh-zoo-receives-over-1000-name-submissions-for-newborn-lion-cub-here-is-when-it-will-be-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254947\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Zoo receives over 1,000 name submissions for newborn lion cub; here is when it will be revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Zoo &amp; Aquarium, Posted on Facebook on June 4th, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n<p>(Pittsburgh, PA) The Pittsburgh Zoo &amp; Aquarium received over 1,000 name submissions for its newborn female African lion cub.<\/p>\n<p>She was the first cub who was born on April 5th to parents Scarlett and Hondo.<\/p>\n<p>The official name reveal is scheduled for August 10th, which is ironically World Lion Day.<\/p>\n<p>The cub is expected to make her public debut in late summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Zoo &amp; Aquarium also received over $5,000 in donations along with the name suggestions, and these donations will go toward supporting the lions at the zoo, along with\u00a0additional\u00a0animal care and conservation efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Zoo &amp; Aquarium, Posted on Facebook on June 4th, 2026)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-254947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254947","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=254947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}