{"id":597417,"date":"2025-11-27T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597417\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:48:16","slug":"endangered-giraffe-calf-born-at-whipsnade-after-death-of-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/597417\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered giraffe calf born at Whipsnade after death of father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whipsnade Zoo&#8217;s giraffe herd is now up to five, and includes the calf&#8217;s siblings Myra and Timba, who are being kept separate from her until she is strong enough to venture outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Connor Corrigan, team leader of large hoofstock at Whipsnade Zoo, said: &#8220;The calf is happy, healthy, and very energetic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was on her feet within an hour of being born, and has already been putting those long legs to use by going for exploratory runs around the indoor den.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Luna is a phenomenal mother \u2013 this is her fifth calf, and she&#8217;s very attentive and nurturing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whipsnade Zoo&#8217;s giraffe herd is now up to five, and includes the calf&#8217;s siblings Myra and Timba, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-597417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115622451826870056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597417","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=597417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}