{"id":360994,"date":"2025-11-07T00:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360994\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T00:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:41:17","slug":"la-zoo-welcomes-first-baby-orangutan-in-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360994\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Zoo welcomes first baby orangutan in 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Topline:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Los Angeles Zoo staff have a new infant on their hands. An <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/lazoo.org\/2025\/11\/orangutan-baby\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">orangutan baby boy<\/a> has made his debut at the zoo after just weeks out of the womb.\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>About the baby: <\/b>The little boy was born Oct. 10 to 43-year-old mom Kalim and 31-year-old dad Isim. The new ape is part of the Bornean orangutan family, which spend about 90% of their time in trees. The orangutans are also categorized as \u201ccritically endangered\u201d because of climate change and human behavior, according to the zoo.<\/p>\n<p><b>Why so long? <\/b>The little guy is the zoo\u2019s first new orangutan in 15 years. These apes have the longest intervals between births of all non-human primates. A mother gives birth once every seven to eight years because they spend time teaching their young how to survive.<\/p>\n<p><b>See the baby:<\/b> If you want to get a peak at the little one, you\u2019re in luck. Zoo visitors can visit the baby while he bonds with his mother at the Red Ape Rain Forest exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: Los Angeles Zoo staff have a new infant on their hands. An orangutan baby boy has made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":360995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[175341,1582,276,2961,20362,224,175340,5337,41789],"class_list":{"0":"post-360994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-baby-ape","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-county","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-zoo","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-orangutan-exhibit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115505639737479343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360994","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=360994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}