{"id":142840,"date":"2026-01-29T17:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/142840\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:18:08","slug":"curious-porcupine-seen-chowing-down-on-snow-as-fort-worth-zoo-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/142840\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Porcupine Seen Chowing Down on Snow as Fort Worth Zoo Reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zoo animals and their caretakers hunkered down for several days in Fort Worth, Texas, as a widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/newswire.storyful.com\/story\/336858\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:winter storm;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">winter storm<\/a> affected dozens of states on Sunday, January 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage shows porcupine Penelope tasting a bowl of snow during Sunday\u2019s storm, which brought <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFortWorth\/status\/2015460094436073950\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:snow;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">snow<\/a> to the Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The zoo said it would operate on a delayed opening schedule on Thursday, welcoming visitors back beginning at noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThank you for your understanding and patience \u2014 we can\u2019t wait to have y\u2019all back!\u201d the zoo said on X. \u201cFor now, enjoy some snowy Penelope smacks that Keeper Jessi captured during the freeze!\u201d Credit: Fort Worth Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoo animals and their caretakers hunkered down for several days in Fort Worth, Texas, as a widespread winter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59960,116,118,117,7227,12398,59959],"class_list":{"0":"post-142840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-delayed-opening","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-fort-worth-zoo","13":"tag-winter-storm","14":"tag-zoo-animals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}