{"id":287463,"date":"2026-09-16T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287463\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:28:08","slug":"national-aviary-selects-3-sets-of-names-for-new-skunk-sisters-for-public-to-vote-on-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287463\/","title":{"rendered":"National Aviary selects 3 sets of names for new skunk sisters for public to vote on \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The newest animal ambassadors at the National Aviary are one step closer to getting their names. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Two weeks ago, the aviary started a naming competition for its two new striped skunk sisters. In that time, people from across the country submitted more than 1,800 name ideas! <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The aviary\u2019s animal care team has selected six names (three pairs) for the public to vote on in round two of the competition. The names are Feta and Ricotta, Petunia and Daisy, and Poppy and Pepper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In round two, the public can vote between the three naming pairs.<a href=\"https:\/\/national-aviary.givingfuel.com\/skunks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/national-aviary.givingfuel.com\/skunks\"> Voting is done online<\/a>. It costs $5 for five votes, and you can vote as much as you like. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The sisters\u2019 names will be announced in early October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Currently, the skunks are living behind the scenes, but can be seen during the Forest Friends Expert Talk or a Skunk Painting Encounter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The newest animal ambassadors at the National Aviary are one step closer to getting their names. Two weeks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[119609,14274,119606,22694,119610,73,75,74,119607,119608,115974],"class_list":["post-287463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aviary-skunks","tag-forest","tag-forest-friends-expert-talk","tag-national-aviary","tag-national-aviary-skunks","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-skunk-painting","tag-skunk-sisters","tag-striped-skunks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287463","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=287463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}