COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said today that it has a new, colorful addition after the birth of a rare female “silvered” langur monkey.<\/p>\n
The baby was born on July 30 to first-time mother Coral and father Kuati, zoo officials announced.<\/p>\n
According to the animal care staff, the infant is strong and doing well, while Coral is already displaying excellent maternal instincts.<\/p>\n
Visitors looking into the zoo’s Asia Quest habitat might do a double take at the newborn’s appearance as silvered langurs are born covered in a bright orange fur. <\/p>\n
The striking coloration is temporary and will gradually transition into the species\u2019 signature silvery-gray coat over the next few months.<\/p>\n
Her arrival marks the first silvered langur birth at the Columbus Zoo in several years and brings the facility’s total langur population to 17. <\/p>\n
Guests can see the new youngest monkey of the langur troop in the Asia Quest section of the park during regular zoo hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said today that it has a new, colorful addition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-818249","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\/818249","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=818249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}