{"id":265486,"date":"2026-08-14T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265486\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:54:10","slug":"elmwood-park-zoo-in-norristown-pennsylvania-welcomes-new-baby-muntjac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265486\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown, Pennsylvania, welcomes new baby muntjac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, August 14, 2026 7:24PM<\/p>\n<p>Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24\/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NORRISTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; The Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown, Pennsylvania, welcomed a very tiny new addition this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A male Reeves&#8217;s muntjac was born, weighing in at just 2.2 pounds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19678905_muntjacelmwoodzoo.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The tiny deer species is native to China and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Muntjacs are known as the &#8220;barking deer&#8221; because of the loud, dog-like alarm calls they make.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The baby and his mother, Violet, are already out on exhibit along the zoo&#8217;s main path.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, August 14, 2026 7:24PM Watch the 6abc Philadelphia 24\/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and Entertainment NORRISTOWN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112102,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-265486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-112102","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265486","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=265486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}