{"id":1018943,"date":"2022-03-11T22:53:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/11\/dallas-zoo-dubs-newborn-colobus-monkey-mkali\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:53:40","slug":"dallas-zoo-dubs-newborn-colobus-monkey-mkali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/11\/dallas-zoo-dubs-newborn-colobus-monkey-mkali\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Zoo dubs newborn colobus monkey Mkali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dallas-Zoo-dubs-newborn-colobus-monkey-Mkali.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDallasZoo%2Fvideos%2F431278075354355%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=476&amp;t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 11 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The Dallas Zoo announced a colobus monkey born recently at the facility has been confirmed as a girl and officials dubbed the new arrival Mkali.<\/p>\n<p>The zoo said in a Facebook post that Mkali was born Jan. 26 to first-time mother Pili and father Kuruka in the zoo&#8217;s colobus monkey exhibit.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they were unable to confirm the primate&#8217;s sex for the first few weeks of her life because colobus mothers keep their newborns close during the early days of life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This bright little girl is thriving! She&#8217;s already started to get some darker coloration &#8212; colobus monkeys are born a light gray color and darken as they age,&#8221; the Facebook post said.<\/p>\n<p>Mkali&#8217;s name is Swahili for &#8220;bright&#8221; or &#8220;sharp,&#8221; the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p>The entire monkey family is now on public display at the zoo&#8217;s Primate Place. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 11 (UPI) &#8212; The Dallas Zoo announced a colobus monkey born recently at the facility has been confirmed as a girl and officials dubbed the new arrival Mkali. The zoo said in a Facebook post that Mkali was born Jan. 26 to first-time mother Pili and father Kuruka in the zoo&#8217;s colobus monkey exhibit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1018944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}