{"id":771004,"date":"2026-07-18T22:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771004\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T22:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T22:39:12","slug":"red-panda-cub-born-at-potawatomi-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771004\/","title":{"rendered":"Red panda cub born at Potawatomi Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 A cute new addition was welcomed into the world at the Potawatomi Zoo earlier this week!<\/p>\n<p>Raya, one of the zoo&#8217;s red pandas, gave birth to five cubs on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo staff say because there were so many in the litter, the cubs were very small and ultimately only one survived.<\/p>\n<p>The staff at the zoo are caring for the cub, currently known as &#8220;Big Red,&#8221; and are cautiously optimistic as he continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Red pandas are listed as endangered, and experts estimate there are less than 10,000 in the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 A cute new addition was welcomed into the world at the Potawatomi Zoo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-771004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771004","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=771004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}