{"id":356424,"date":"2025-08-19T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356424\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:16:13","slug":"watch-lemurs-and-capybaras-face-the-scales-at-london-zoos-annual-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356424\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Lemurs and Capybaras face the scales at London Zoo&#8217;s annual weigh-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London Zoo\u2019s annual weigh-in day has arrivedpublished at 08:01 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>08:01 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/efc4785b-e209-4310-bc20-65148f0cfca4.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Adam Goldsmith<\/strong><br \/>Reporting from London Zoo<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A penguin smiling at the camera in a sand enclosure\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/01943016-9fa5-459b-bdac-988f899f13fd.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2040\" height=\"1147\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Good morning from Regent&#8217;s Park as London Zoo gears up for one of the biggest events in their calendar-  the annual animal weigh-in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From capybaras to camels, the zookeepers will attempt to weigh and measure over 10,000 animals to monitor their health and wellbeing, before sharing that vital data with conservation groups and sites around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s a task that\u2019s easier said than done though, when you\u2019ve got a population of animals across over 300 species. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I\u2019m expecting to see a fair share of innovative solutions as a result, and I\u2019ve come with a carrot or two up my sleeve in the hope of tempting some of the zoo\u2019s inhabitants onto the scales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As I make my way around the zoo, you can come along too by tapping <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">watch live<\/b> at the top of the page. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London Zoo\u2019s annual weigh-in day has arrivedpublished at 08:01 British Summer Time 08:01 BST Adam GoldsmithReporting from London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-356424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054679481937515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}