{"id":266262,"date":"2026-04-25T21:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266262\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:06:13","slug":"houston-zoo-mourns-the-loss-of-23-year-old-ankole-cattle-luni-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266262\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Zoo mourns the loss of 23-year-old Ankole cattle, Luni Tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The Houston Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its beloved animals this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonzoo.org\/blog\/remembering-luni-tune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement from the Houston Zoo<\/a>, its Ankole cattle, named Luni Tune, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Zoo officials described Luni Tune, who was brought to the Houston Zoo in 2006 with his two brothers, as &#8220;the shy one with the perfectly symmetrical horns, [with] a way of making himself known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As he got older, Luni Tune&#8217;s team built a health plan around him, including joint supplements, a special diet, and the kind of steady, attentive care that comes from really knowing an animal, according to the Houston Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Houston Zoo also said that Luni Tune was their last Ankole cattle, adding that &#8220;this place feels a little quieter without him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; The Houston Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its beloved animals this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[99510,56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-266262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-99510","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266262","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=266262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}