{"id":146427,"date":"2025-09-10T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146427\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:47:09","slug":"endangered-okapi-calf-born-at-san-diego-zoo-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/146427\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered okapi calf born at San Diego Zoo \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/tag\/san-diego-zoo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Zoo<\/a> celebrated the birth of an okapi calf last week, zoo officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The calf was welcomed to the world on Sept. 2, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. She&#8217;s not only the first okapi calf born at the zoo since 2021, but she&#8217;s also the first of her kind to be born in the habitat, which was made possible by the warm weather.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okapi calves do not thermoregulate well, so previous calves born at the Zoo in the winter remained in behind-the-scenes areas until they were a few months old,&#8221; the SDZWA said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/okapi-calf-2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"A recently born okapi calf next to a fully-grown okapi.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance<\/p>\n<p>A recently born okapi calf next to a fully-grown okapi at the San Diego Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>This means guests have the chance to get an earlier-than-expected glimpse of the calf interacting with her mother, Subira, and first-time father, Kapu, at the San Diego Zoo&#8217;s Lost Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Okapis \u2014 known as the &#8220;forest giraffe&#8221; and for their zebra-like striped hindquarters\u00a0and legs \u2014 are native to Central Africa and are considered endangered, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/species\/15188\/51140517\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Union for Conservation of Nature&#8217;s Red List of Threatened Species<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The zoo says the calf&#8217;s birth supports the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan Program, which aims to help conserve endangered species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Zoo celebrated the birth of an okapi calf last week, zoo officials announced Tuesday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5830,192,27342,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-146427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-animals-and-wildlife","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-san-diego-zoo","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}