{"id":345936,"date":"2026-06-22T18:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345936\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:56:34","slug":"baby-elephant-plays-in-sprinkler-to-beat-heat-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345936\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Elephant Plays in Sprinkler to Beat Heat in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Texas <a data-ylk=\"slk:summer heat;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFortWorth\/status\/2067802856007012835\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">summer heat<\/a> settled over Fort Worth, an adorable baby Asian elephant at a local zoo couldn&#8217;t get enough of the cool water keepers sprayed on him and his herd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage posted by the Fort Worth Zoo on June 20 shows the vivacious elephant calf Sam Houston. According to <a data-ylk=\"slk:the zoo,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fortworthzoo.org\/new-at-the-zoo\/posts\/our-elephant-herd-has-grown-again\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the zoo,<\/a> the playful pachyderm was named after the Texas icon because he was the largest calf in their history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Sam Houston is soaking in some good old-fashioned Texas fun in the sprinkler!&#8221; the zoo wrote on X. Credit: Fort Worth Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Texas summer heat settled over Fort Worth, an adorable baby Asian elephant at a local zoo couldn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20879,116,118,117,7227,5071],"class_list":["post-345936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-asian-elephant","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-zoo","tag-sam-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345936","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=345936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}