{"id":416091,"date":"2025-09-11T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416091\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:16:13","slug":"watch-edinburgh-zoos-first-baby-flamingo-in-almost-a-decade-takes-first-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416091\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Edinburgh Zoo&#8217;s first baby flamingo in almost a decade takes first steps\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New footage showing Edinburgh\u2019s Zoo\u2019s first baby flamingo in almost a decade taking its first steps has been released.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) announced the new chicklet had hatched on September 4.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a3023d218111387b578fd4422c885bd1-1757595547.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   alt=\"The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) announced the new chicklet had hatched on September 4.\"\/>RZSSThe Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) announced the new chicklet had hatched on September 4. RZSS<\/p>\n<p>The chick\u2019s arrival marked the first hatching in nine years for the zoo\u2019s breeding programme.<\/p>\n<p>Now Edinburgh Zoo has shared footage of the new addition taking its first tentative steps under the watchful gaze of its parents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5f6d1550b7310467d2e032a18f2ed04c-1757595393.jpeg\" width=\"1120\" height=\"720\"   alt=\"The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) announced the new chicklet had hatched on September 4.\"\/>RZSSThe Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) announced the new chicklet had hatched on September 4. RZSS<\/p>\n<p>Following the chicklet\u2019s arrival, Lorna Hughes, birds and primates team leader at Edinburgh Zoo, said it was \u201cincredible\u201d to see the parents taking care of their little one.<\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh Zoo\u2019s flamingo flock is home to residents of all ages, from the newly hatched chick to Shrimpy, Louis and Rio, who are estimated to have hatched in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>STV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New footage showing Edinburgh\u2019s Zoo\u2019s first baby flamingo in almost a decade taking its first steps has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115186328456856685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416091","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=416091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}