{"id":248092,"date":"2025-09-23T05:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248092\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T05:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:13:12","slug":"lincoln-park-zoo-announces-pregnancy-of-endangered-black-rhinoceros-kapuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/248092\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Park Zoo announces pregnancy of endangered black rhinoceros Kapuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Lincoln Park Zoo announced endangered black rhino is pregnant <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/81b256894fa1bce1ffc920745b3a7351-0-1758601138294.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/lincoln-park-zoo-announced-endangered-black-rhino-is-pregnant\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Lincoln Park Zoo announced endangered black rhino is pregnant<\/p>\n<p>          00:23<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Park Zoo announced on Monday that the female eastern black rhinoceros named Kapuki is pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>The news of her pregnancy coincides with World Rhino Day.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old rhino is expected to give birth to the calf by early spring of next year.<\/p>\n<p>It will be Kapuki&#8217;s third birth at the Zoo, and her first with 21-year-old male Utenzi, the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p>Kapuki&#8217;s pregnancy was confirmed through hormone analysis using noninvasive collection of fecal samples.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Curator Cassy Kutilek said every birth matters when it comes to the endangered species, and the zoo is proud to be a part of the growing population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kapuki is an experienced mother successfully raising King and Romeo and we&#8217;re looking forward to seeing her in this maternal role again soon,&#8221; she said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gestation period for eastern black rhinoceroses is typically 16 months, and females only give birth to one calf at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/jeramie-bizzle\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeramie  Bizzle<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin Weekly Newspaper, OakPark.com and Sportskeeda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lincoln Park Zoo announced endangered black rhino is pregnant Lincoln Park Zoo announced endangered black rhino is pregnant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":248093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,56436,69189],"class_list":{"0":"post-248092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-lincoln-park-zoo","12":"tag-rhinoceros"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115251905300612029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}