{"id":465651,"date":"2026-02-13T05:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/465651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:44:11","slug":"elephant-calf-update-building-bonds-among-the-national-zoos-herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/465651\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Calf Update: Building Bonds Among the National Zoo&#8217;s Herd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\">Nhi Linh appears to be recovering well post-partum. She is with Trong Nhi and Bozie, and they are helping settle her and guide her through this process. Bozie, as an experienced mother, is helping her herdmates sort out the calf\u2019s role in their lives. She\u202fhas had a significant positive impact, and the concerning behaviors\u202fwe noted previously\u202fhave decreased significantly each day.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\">A \u201chowdy\u201d wall between the enclosures allows the calf, Nhi Linh, Bozie and Trong Nhi to interact safely. They are able to see, smell and hear one another\u00a0at all times. During the day, when keepers are present in the Barn, the elephants have the ability to\u00a0reach out and touch\u00a0each other with their trunks, if they so choose.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nhi Linh appears to be recovering well post-partum. She is with Trong Nhi and Bozie, and they are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-465651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465651","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=465651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}