{"id":644975,"date":"2025-12-20T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:40:23","slug":"banham-zoo-announces-birth-of-endangered-penguin-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/644975\/","title":{"rendered":"Banham Zoo announces birth of endangered Penguin chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pumpkin and Spice are said to be settling in to the zoo well, being looked after by their parents Maneno and Jozini.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are now part of a colony of African black footed penguins at the Zoo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Team leader of the bird team at Banham Zoo, Sophie Imhof said: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t be happier to welcome Pumpkin and Spice, especially at such a magical time of year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With African black-footed penguins under so much pressure in the wild, every new chick really does matter and these two are a lovely reminder of why conservation work like this is so important.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pumpkin and Spice are said to be settling in to the zoo well, being looked after by their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-644975","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\/115754069144894599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644975","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=644975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}