{"id":266882,"date":"2026-08-17T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266882\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:24:10","slug":"baby-born-at-elmwood-park-zoo-through-species-survival-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266882\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Born At Elmwood Park Zoo Through Species Survival Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zookeepers welcomed a Reeves\u2019s muntjac, a baby boy who weighed in at just about 2.2 pounds.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" data-image=\"22848544-1786722340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/muntjac2.jpg\" data- \/>Elmwood Park Zoo <\/p>\n<p>Reeves\u2019s muntjacs are a very distinctive species of deer native to Taiwan and China, known for their loud, dog-like barking sounds. They&#8217;re shorter and notably more barrel chested than the white-tailed deer you&#8217;ll see in Pennsylvania, and much smaller. When fully grown, they only weigh about 30 pounds, as compared to white tail deer, which grow to 90 to 300 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zookeepers welcomed a Reeves\u2019s muntjac, a baby boy who weighed in at just about 2.2 pounds. Elmwood Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-266882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266882","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=266882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}