{"id":665352,"date":"2025-12-31T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665352\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:07:17","slug":"edinburgh-zoo-axes-penguin-parade-over-bird-flu-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665352\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Zoo axes penguin parade over bird flu fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Bosses at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/local-news\/edinburgh-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a> Zoo have postponed the Wee Waddle, an event where penguins parade along a walkway next to their enclosure, amid fears bird flu is on the rise in the UK.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The event generally takes place several times a week and is described as a \u201cfirm favourite\u201d with visitors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25733064.hogmanay-fears-edinburgh-pubs-hit-power-cuts-ahead-celebrations\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hogmanay fears as Edinburgh pubs hit by power cuts ahead of celebrations<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jo Elliot, curator for the Royal Zoological Society for Scotland (RZSS), said: \u201cDue to an increased risk of avian influenza in the UK we have made the decision to postpone our Wee Waddle for the foreseeable future.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe have strengthened our bio-security measures on-site, increasing the amount of disinfection points to keep all of our bird species safe from the virus.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWhile we know the Wee Waddle is a firm favourite with our visitors, protecting all of our animals is always our top priority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bosses at Edinburgh Zoo have postponed the Wee Waddle, an event where penguins parade along a walkway next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-665352","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\/115815989170014697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665352","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=665352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}