{"id":406271,"date":"2025-11-26T15:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406271\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:39:17","slug":"san-antonio-zoo-welcomes-gorillas-for-first-time-in-35-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406271\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Zoo Welcomes Gorillas for First Time in 35 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three female gorillas have recently made the move to San Antonio Zoo, where they will complete the band of seven in a new habitat set to open in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage from the zoo shows the trio, Anaka, Merry, and Andi, who moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/sazoo.org\/congo-falls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Congo Falls;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Congo Falls<\/a>, a new enclosure built to mark the return of gorillas to the zoo for the first time in 35 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The initiative is a collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/gorillassp.org\/Home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gorilla Species Survival Plan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Gorilla Species Survival Plan<\/a>, the zoo said. It \u201cmarks an important milestone in both institutions\u2019 shared commitment to the conservation of western lowland gorillas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Congo Falls will be opening to the public on Saturday, December 13. The enclosure is described as \u201ca world-class habitat, setting the stage for a transformative new era in innovative habitat design, wildlife conservation, education, and animal care.\u201d Credit: San Antonio Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three female gorillas have recently made the move to San Antonio Zoo, where they will complete the band&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":406272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,9086,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-406271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-san-antonio-zoo","11":"tag-sanantonio","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115616754282513772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406271","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=406271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}